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Showerthought: I just read that a basic glass furnace can use over 4000 pounds of propane in a month.
Found that in an old trade journal from 1998, and it made me think about how much fuel costs have changed. Anyone else track their shop's gas use over time?
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thompson.brian7mo ago
A buddy of mine runs a small glassblowing studio, and he showed me his fuel logs from the early 2000s. He was paying pennies compared to his last delivery, which nearly made him pass out. It's that slow creep @robert64 mentioned, where you don't notice the jump month to month until you look back years. My friend said his main furnace now costs more to run than his first studio's rent, which is a brutal way to frame it. He's had to adjust his pricing so many times just to keep up, and it's never a fun talk with customers.
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robert647mo ago
That "over 4000 pounds of propane" figure really puts it in perspective. My old pottery kiln used to eat through fuel, and the bills from back then look like a dream now. It's wild to see how those operational costs have quietly doubled.
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