Diesel today

[jyoutz]

I feel for you…heres one of ours yesterday.


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I fueled my Jeep with regular at Costco about 2 hours ago. It’s now down to $2.49 and diesel is $2.97.

 

[paulsharvey]

It's hard to say, cut hay when diesel is $5/gal, and sell in the fall when fuel dropped to $3/gal, and recoup that price, because others hay on the market might have been cut at $4 or $3/gal.

Case in point, that same exact station, $3.59 this evening; so a $0.30 swing in 3 days. Thats what makes budgetting and planning difficult.

 

[kenhar]

Remember back in the 70's when the US ran short of oil, gas was $.29 to $.35 a gallon. For a while people could only buy 10 gallons at a time and only buy every other day pertaining to the last digit of your license plate. 55 mph was the nationwide speed limit. After about a year of that, gas prices doubled and then there was plenty of oil again. Does politics not enter into fuel prices just like everything else? Bad weather, an uprising in Saudi, or any other "ripple" in day-to-day oil business, prices shoot up overnight but usually takes weeks to go back down if ever. Politicians look the other way. It ain't price gouging, it's just business as usual.

 

[Hay Dude]

I fueled my Jeep with regular at Costco about 2 hours ago. It’s now down to $2.49 and diesel is $2.97.

This is why you don’t feel the pinch. As Jeep owners, We both know they don’t even take 20G of gas to fill.
Try feeling the price increases when you put 180 gallons of diesel in a MT655E. The $2 increase per gallon we’ve endured for the last 3 years is an additional $360 per tankful.

That’s why fuel prices mean more to some than others.

 

[Tomtint]

Rember back in the 70's when the US ran short of oil, gas was $.29 to $.35 a gallon. For a while people could only buy 10 gallons at a time and only buy every other day pertaining to the last digit of your license plate. 55 mph was the nationwide speed limit. After about a year of that, gas prices doubled and then there was plenty of oil again. Does politics not enter into fuel prices just like everything else? Bad weather, an uprising Saudi, or any other "ripple" in day-to-day oil business, prices shoot up overnight but usually takes weeks to go back down if ever. Politicians look the other way. It ain't price gouging, it's just business as usual.

Much of that era was due to poor energy policy and planning by our own gubment.. and there was little domestic product to keep the nation supplied.

 

[Tomtint]

This is why you don’t feel the pinch. As Jeep owners, We both know they don’t even take 20G of gas to fill.
Try feeling the price increases when you put 180 gallons of diesel in a MT655E. The $2 increase per gallon we’ve endured for the last 3 years is an additional $360 per tankful.

That’s why fuel prices mean more to some than others.

I'm at the pump virtually every day. 9 vehicles and various other fuel needs. So when gas or diesel is 2-3.00 more pg than it was.. and should be.. it adds up

 

[Chanceywd]

Rember back in the 70's when the US ran short of oil, gas was $.29 to $.35 a gallon. For a while people could only buy 10 gallons at a time and only buy every other day pertaining to the last digit of your license plate. 55 mph was the nationwide speed limit. After about a year of that, gas prices doubled and then there was plenty of oil again. Does politics not enter into fuel prices just like everything else? Bad weather, an uprising Saudi, or any other "ripple" in day-to-day oil business, prices shoot up overnight but usually takes weeks to go back down if ever. Politicians look the other way. It ain't price gouging, it's just business as usual.

It was 4 gal for $1 when I remember it in the 70's here in central NY. There was a what was called then a gas war of stations lowering prices daily to get your business. I was working for a little over $4 an hour and traveling about 50 miles each way to my job in Syracuse. I quit that and got into a different kind of work locally because it was just getting stupid with all you cited.
One thing I have always thought about is the sales tax part of this. Politicians like Gov Hochul have no incentive to control prices when that windfall sales tax comes in and that isn't just on fuel it is on vehicles, electricity, phone bills, internet, shipping building materials, almost everything that is almost doubled in price. Brings them the extra money they need for all their sanctuary projects!

 

[Jframe]

Here in the furthest north, furthest west and furthest east state there is a common belief that come January 20 the administrative prohibitions now in place on producing new oil will be lifted. I share that belief.

 

[jyoutz]

This is why you don’t feel the pinch. As Jeep owners, We both know they don’t even take 20G of gas to fill.
Try feeling the price increases when you put 180 gallons of diesel in a MT655E. The $2 increase per gallon we’ve endured for the last 3 years is an additional $360 per tankful.

That’s why fuel prices mean more to some than others.

My truck takes 36 gallons of diesel. But $2.49 for regular and $2.97 for diesel currently isn’t too high. The last time I remember when diesel was less than $2 was before ULS fuel was introduced in 2007.

 

[Hay Dude]

My truck takes 36 gallons of diesel. But $2.49 for regular and $2.97 for diesel currently isn’t too high. The last time I remember when diesel was less than $2 was before ULS fuel was introduced in 2007.

Yeah, but you said Jeep. We know Jeeps have tiny fuel tanks.