Bulk LPG - Cheapest suppliers / supply route?

The majors (Calor, Flogas and Avantigas with just under 90% of the 'market') and most of the independents - from the largest (Countrywide) to the smallest - do NOT post prices on-line. But a few independents do:

29 .... Birmingham Autogas
30.3.. Lister ANSI Tracker
35..... Cardiff Gas
37..... Carvers
39.73..Extra Fuel

..and two other trackers:
22.05.. Woldlink
28....... Lima Gas (Lima is now owned by J Gas, based in Scotland, which does not have a tracker).

Yes, it's all the same stuff they sell! There are only a handful of refineries producing LPG in the UK. And suppliers (even the majors) often fill their tankers at each other's depots.

Several of these suppliers also have fixed price deals and anyway the prices quoted will have different attached conditions (minimum volume p.a., different tank rental charge, cheaper price if you own your own tank, etc). Woldlink, an agricultural purchasing co-operative, uses Flogas - and operates nationally - but this tracker deal is probably closed to new subscribers. When Woldlink was selling LPG at 20ppl it was making 6ppl - so Flogas was charging it around 14ppl. Extra Fuel is Manchester-based but, beyond its own delivery area, uses Flogas and other suppliers. Otherwise all the companies have a regional distribution area: see the links.

For prices and the latest deals from the secretive suppliers please see the forum posts - and please keep the info coming! Remember that if a supplier refuses to go any lower on initial price it may extend the time for the fixed price, lower the "guaranteed" increase, do a deal on tank rental, offer "free gas", charge your last delivery at the new lower price, etc, etc. Just make sure everything is in your contract (with no get-out of jail clauses for the supplier - e.g. "if wholesale prices increase beyond..."). They (probably!) want to keep your custom - and their volumes up - AND they can afford to be "nice to you as a valued customer / potential customer" because so many are paying over the odds. If you go with an independent (recommended: to get some competition into the 'market', and for good human service) HateLPG recommends you add a clause that if your supplier is taken over the contract is immediately void. DCC's stated policy for LPG is to grow by acquisition - DCC owns Flogas. If your supplier wants a no-disclosure clause blow a raspberry!...and let the forum know. Flogas is keen on ND clauses when it pays out compensation for gross overcharging (see earlier posts - the sums are in hundreds .... Calor paid HateLPG almost a thousand for overcharging).

Finally, if you can join up with neighbours (as some forum users have done) you'll get a better deal: tankers and their drivers are expensive to run!
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I recently got a letter from Countrywide increasing the price by 4ppl, no mention of Brexit, just blaming the increased wholesale price.

They also increased the rental price, without notifying me in advance. I told them to go and run in relation to that, if they can't be bothered to drop me an email with a variation to the contract then I'll just pay what my contract says, regardless of the amount on the quarterly invoice.

tp023 Calor
Anyone else just got a letter from calor saying they are increasing the price by 3ppl due to brexit and the dollar exchange rate? I only renewed in April 16.

Yes we got this too and are now looking at alternative suppliers.