Ouray resident Lillian McMurrin clears snow off the top of her new propane tank from Pioneer Propane on Tuesday. McMurrin is one of several local residents who have reported problems with receiving propane refills from Amerigas the last couple of months. Amerigas didn't arrive to refill her tank until three weeks after she placed her order. By then, she had already switched to Delta-based Pioneer. Erin McIntyre â Ouray County Plaindealer
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Propane customers left out in the cold
When his propane-fueled stove went out the day before Thanksgiving, Tate Rogers didn’t think much of it at first.
“I just kind of blew it off,” he said, because it isn’t his home’s only heat source. But the next day, when his wife was cooking Thanksgiving dinner, the gas-powered cooktop stopped working. That was when he went outside to check his propane tank, and realized it was empty.
Rogers, who lives between Ridgway and Ouray, was enrolled in automatic delivery with Amerigas, so the c...
