At your local Costco warehouse store, look for the propane refill station, which will have a large propane tank with posts around it to protect it from people driving too close to it.

The station is one of nearly 100 selling propane to fill customers' tanks to be cited by the state since Jan. 1, 2010. It was one of 12 to be fined by Weights & Measures over the same period.

Ignik says it’s solved the problem by creating the TapRack Refillable Propane system, designed to refill four 1-pound propane bottles at any commercial refilling station. The TapRack will be ...