Chilly807
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Yeah, we're currently at almost $5 Cdn per US gallon here for diesel. It's more than gas here at this time of year.
Sean
Sean
Fuel Consumption GPH
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grsthegreat
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Baby Grand
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Just filled the yellow jugs at the corner for 4.30/gal here in CT, The Land of Steady Habits.
Unleaded Regular gasoline is 3.55/gal at the same place. Why diesel is so much more has me scratchin' my head. It used to be cheaper.
Unleaded Regular gasoline is 3.55/gal at the same place. Why diesel is so much more has me scratchin' my head. It used to be cheaper.
JDgreen227
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Here regular gas is selling for $3.19 and diesel is always $4 or higher. I read somewhere else on another forum that when they refine a barrel of oil, they get more gallons of gas out of it than they would of diesel. Not sure if that's true or not.
Chilly807
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I suspect it's due to the higher demand for heating oil at this time of year, in the summer months it's usually lower than gas.
Sean
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JDgreen227
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Not here, sorry to tell you...diesel is much higher than gas YEAR AROUND. The lowest I have seen diesel for the last few years is $3.75 and that was only for two or three days then it shot back up to $4.
BethesdaEC
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Diesel has about 15% more energy per gallon which means 15% more raw oil. Gas requires more expensive refining than diesel, so back when crude was cheap, gas and diesel could sell for roughly the same and diesel was sometimes cheaper. Now that the raw material is more expensive it has moved the other way. Heating oil, diesel and jet fuel are very similar and the airlines actually purchase options on heating oil because there is no options market for jet fuel and they can covert the heat oil option into jet fuel very easily.
Rara Avis
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schmism
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My TC33 (33hp but hydro trans) on avg consumes .5 gal per hr. Ive recorded that over numerous tanks of avg use, both FEL work and lawn moweing with the MMM and also for the 40hrs we put on it digging a new drain feild useing the backhoe. (20 gal of fuel used, tracked and recorded)
Durring heavy work, heavy brush hoging, bottom plowing Ive seen that rise to 1gal per hr but im at high idle (2400rpm) and often hearing the engine pull down for extended times. (again tracked and recorded)
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The amount you use per hour is completely dependant on what you're doing (how much hp the engine is developing)
My Kubota L5030 gets 12 hours or more out of its 10 gallon tank doing mixed loader stuff. It gets less than 4 hours of snowblowing deep snow continuously.
My MF5455 gets ? many days out of an almost 40 gallon tank on the wood splitter, it gets about 6-7 hours on the 10 ft discbine running wide open.
My Kubota L5030 gets 12 hours or more out of its 10 gallon tank doing mixed loader stuff. It gets less than 4 hours of snowblowing deep snow continuously.
My MF5455 gets ? many days out of an almost 40 gallon tank on the wood splitter, it gets about 6-7 hours on the 10 ft discbine running wide open.