Diesel prices?

[LBrown59]

1*LB, in my area you'd never get 55 gallons delivered even at the slowest times.
2*I think every company in my area has something like a 200 gallon minimum or you go fetch it yourself.
3* With fuel costs rising, which make delivery costs more, that minimum may go up to 500 gallons soon according to one of the three companies I call.
4* With that small of an amount LB is talking about, you'd have to have a tank mounted in the back of your pickup truck and go fetch.

1*You might if you worked it right.
2*It's 150 gallon here but I get around it by having them top off my drum when they are already in my area or passing by my place.
They are glad to do it because they pick up an extra 55 gallon sale with no driving expenses to get the sale because they are already here.
3*Top offs are extra gravy for them because they pick up extra sales without extra driving.
The more top offs they can get when they are already in an area the less the driving cost is for them.
4*probably not if done like I just explained.

 

[redharley]

Fellow's just had to chime in here just to let you know it's not all that bad for fuel hauling company's.I buy fuel oil for a fleet of trucks about 6000 gal a week. On Tuesday I paid .62 cents a gal less than pump price in Pa. To me somebody is makinig money. These guy's are real quick to raise it,very slow to bring it down.

 

[Skyco]

Ditto the quick rise/slow fall. I always hear the stations are making less than 10 cents a gallon blah blah blah. Yeah right. So how can fuel vary way more than that between stations since they all get it from the same place at presumably the same wholesale price?

 

[joerocker]

Ditto the quick rise/slow fall. I always hear the stations are making less than 10 cents a gallon blah blah blah. Yeah right. So how can fuel vary way more than that between stations since they all get it from the same place at presumably the same wholesale price?

Because EVERYONE lies...all they want is your money...

 

[redharley]

I did not want everyone to think the oil co. are ripping them,most times price's are .20 - .30 less than pump price's which at todays prices is not that high of a profit margin. Your local tractor dealer is making 20% on the parts he sells at least he needs to or we would have a place to get those parts.I just mean when prices go up they raise them right away even though what the have in the ground was cheaper,but when it come's down you won't see it for day's

 

[MikePA]

I just mean when prices go up they raise them right away even though what the have in the ground was cheaper,

It's simple economics....

• When prices are rising, they have to charge what it will cost to replace '...what the{y} have in the ground...'.
• When prices are falling, they have to charge enough to pay for '...what the{y} have in the ground...'.

 

[riptides]

It is hogwash.

The supply in a stations tanks may range from two to seven days old.

Yet the prices change once or twice a day?
That gas I bought is not in the system being produced, it is in the ground tanks. Yet we pay more for it sitting there?

It, my friends is not right. Replacement cost is a myth.

 

[dgl24087]

Ditto the quick rise/slow fall. I always hear the stations are making less than 10 cents a gallon blah blah blah. Yeah right. So how can fuel vary way more than that between stations since they all get it from the same place at presumably the same wholesale price?

Stations are not charged the same wholesale price. In a recent article in The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, VA. (I'll see if I can find it online and post a link later), a fuel distributor was interviewed. Surprisingly, he stated that stations along Interstate highways were charged more for fuel than stations away from the Interstates. High volume stations receive better pricing than lower volume stations, and the type of additives in fuel also varied prices. This distributor services Exxon, Sheetz, and Valero, as well as a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head.

 

[Dargo]

I'm just hoping prices have gone down rather than up by the time I call tomorrow to get my tank filled.

 

[MikePA]

Replacement cost is a myth.

Replacement costs were going up more than once a day, but despite the facts, people can always believe what ever they want to.