Diesel prices take a jump yet again

[90cummins]

I topped up my car & paid $6.17 per gallon
fortunately it only took 4.5 gallons.
90cummins

 

[LouNY]

Guess that 'hobby' tractor you have is gonna be expensive to fuel up..

I'm more concerned with all the working tractors and all the homes that use heating oil.
Damn a full working day on many tractors will be close to or over a $1000.00 and many will be over $3000
and then a typical heating season will be over $6000 for many people.

 

[5030]

Lou you need to practice conservatism with your tractors. No excessive idling no idling to keep the cab cool and don't spill a drop when fueling. I've already built the fuel cost into my round bales but that don't mean I can be 'wasteful', the stuff is gold today and will probably get worse.

We heat with biomass mostly and I pre bought all the wood pellets for next winter already as I fully expect the price to increase substantially but our backup fuel source and the dryer gas is propane. Interestingly, it has remained pretty stable and actually dropped a bit last week (I monitor the price every day on the Michigan Propane sellers website). I gave my supplier strict instructions that if they foresaw a price increase, to top off all of my bottles to 85%. The owner of the company that supplies my propane is also one of my hunting buds and a good friend but that don't mean I get a deal. No one gets a deal that I know if.

I find it interesting that the price has remained stable in as much as propane is cracked from crude oil. Next winter is gonna be a hard one on people on fixed incomes. It will come down to staying warm and eating or filling the buggy with gasoline. I don't want to make that choice myself but I suspect a lot of people will be in that situation.

 

[5030]

One of my other hunting buds and good friend manages a fleet of 56 Fed-Ex contracted road tractors (semi tractors) and we were at a function last night and I asked him what it was costing his drivers to fill them up. He replied around 1100 bucks a fill but Fed-Ex is paying a fuel surcharge for gallons consumed but that the fuel rebate isn't really covering the cost increases very well. You take 56 road tractors times $1100.00 a fill ( which is usually once per day) and that comes out to some very serious jack every day. I know that he has enabled the auto shutdown (15 minutes) on all of them and is encouraging his drivers to drive conservatively and he gives them a fuel bonus if they average better than the fleet average mpg. Motor fuel and heating fuel is a big bite today thanks to you know who and his failed policies.

Keep that in mind come the mid terms is all I can say.

 

[mrmikey]

I heard a gallon of gas is now 3 quarts some places.

That's so close to believable it's not funny .
Look at a 'gallon of paint',
Even something as simple as buying pork chops. Always bought the pack at Costco, they're so thick you can slice them in half and still have two good, thick chops. Bought a pack last week, they looked the same on the face of it, got 'em home and be damned if they weren't 3/4 as thick as normal. never thought t check the price per lb............M

 

[LouNY]

Lou you need to practice conservatism with your tractors. No excessive idling no idling to keep the cab cool and don't spill a drop when fueling. I've already built the fuel cost into my round bales but that don't mean I can be 'wasteful', the stuff is gold today and will probably get worse.

We heat with biomass mostly and I pre bought all the wood pellets for next winter already as I fully expect the price to increase substantially but our backup fuel source and the dryer gas is propane. Interestingly, it has remained pretty stable and actually dropped a bit last week (I monitor the price every day on the Michigan Propane sellers website). I gave my supplier strict instructions that if they foresaw a price increase, to top off all of my bottles to 85%. The owner of the company that supplies my propane is also one of my hunting buds and a good friend but that don't mean I get a deal. No one gets a deal that I know if.

I find it interesting that the price has remained stable in as much as propane is cracked from crude oil. Next winter is gonna be a hard one on people on fixed incomes. It will come down to staying warm and eating or filling the buggy with gasoline. I don't want to make that choice myself but I suspect a lot of people will be in that situation.

Conservation of fuel has almost always been a concern even back when it was under a quarter a gallon, my parents were depression children. We grew up not wasting anything and saving most every thing.
When I'm working a tractor and have a chance to shut it down I do just for the quietness.
Heck I have been called a hoarder, I keep used baler twine around to tie things up with such as bundling used newspapers or cardboard boxes when broken down.
When I welding out of position and have to shape a rod to reach and it wont reach once it half or quarter used it goes in my used rod bucket, I get on a nice flat easy to access surface I'll use my stubs to weld with.

As far as propane being cracked from oil production to my knowledge that will be a minor percentage of propane.
I know in the 70's, 80's and 90's that the vast majority of propane was processed from natural gas. Oil and gas field gases are piped into gas plants and the liquids and sulfers removed then the gas is pressurized and run through separation systems and the ethanes, pentans and numerous other lights are separated out as desired for the market place then the leftover is pressurized up and sent out to the pipelines as natural gas and often the btu content was still so high that atmospheric air was blended in to reduce the btu's to natural gas standards.

 

[Hay Dude]

I'm more concerned with all the working tractors and all the homes that use heating oil.
Damn a full working day on many tractors will be close to or over a $1000.00 and many will be over $3000
and then a typical heating season will be over $6000 for many people.

I’m using 11G/Hr square baling on the MX-270. Raking tractor another 5G/hr. 16G x $5 x 8hrs.
A typical day of square baling (10-6) just in fuel would be $640
Mowing tractor uses 10G/hr

Fertilizer is worse.

 

[5030]

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[5030]

Fertilizer is worse.

Much worse in fact. Better adjust your selling prices to reflect inputs. I will say my smaller M's don't suck that much fuel, not even close but they still do the job and I'm good with that. Overall, Might consume 900 gallons total a year.

 

[mjonesnh]

$4.899 at local Bp station this morning. Middle TN. area