Diesel prices?
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asylum575
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Filled up a 5 gallon container for the Kubota over the weekend at $4.89gallon.
Ouch
Ouch
slaveToHorses
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HappyCPE said:I see diesel prices varying in NJ. The "car" places are as high as $2.799. My local station is $2.739. If I'm in Washington Borough, Warren county, the Hess station used to be $2.679. There's only one place I know that sells off-road diesel in small quantities and they get $2.549. I suppose the rest is profit.
Quite a bit is taxes man.
My last load of B20 (265gals) was $4.07/g. Of that;
$3.59/g fuel cost
$0.24/g fed road tax
$0.24/g Oregon road tax
truncated to the penny.
The local filling stations were higher at the time, but that is expected since they have higher overhead than bulk suppliers.
However, earlier this week I noticed that two different Shell stations, a few miles apart, had a 10 cents per gallon difference in price on diesel!
slaveToHorses
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Interesting but more a typical US news report regurgitating "truth" that the politicians and company spin doctors export to him, with questionable motives too.
He claims he is speaking the truth but others disagree with some of the claims.
US oil companies have not invested in new refineries. This is true, but they have invested in expanding the refineries they currently have.
When they testified before congress recently they were asked if they were running at full capacity and they all answered no.
When they were asked if they would build new refineries right now, if the environmental restrictions were lifted, they answered no. They don't need to since they still have unused capacity (over all).
Now his comments about the fall of the dollar and our reckless consumption are hard to dispute. Most of the world pays higher prices than we do. We have been spoiled, and act like it.
The part about issues of transporting ULSD is interesting, I wish he had expanded on that statement.
Now his solution? Make a buck by investing in Exxon! Aren't they great. Guess that pretty much shows his motivation.
MikePA
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I'd like him to define 'reckless consumption'.slaveToHorses said:
That's like walking into a tractor dealing and stating you want to pay 10% over MSRP because that's what they pay in Europe where they aren't spoiled.slaveToHorses said:
Anyone who feels guilty about paying less than the rest of the world for fuel can add their own fuel tax surcharge each time they fill up. It's not compulsory as the higher fuel taxes they pay in the rest of the world but the effect will be the same and it will assuage their guilt.Eagleview
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$7.58 a gallon in convict land . But our gallon is 4.54 litres .
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On road here is $4.259 a gallon here but I paid 3.70 per gallon plus sales tax making it $3.959 a gallon for the red stuff.asylum575 said:
Thy even gave me a 55 gallon drum to put the 30 gallon i bought from them in.
Eagleview
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We are headed into a fuel induced recession . The oil companies keep screwing down the clamp they have on us one thread a day . They are watching our reaction , we have not crumbled yet and we are still able to buy a flat screen TV so they will give it another turn tomorrow . When we do faulter , that will prompt them to back it off a quarter turn and that's were it will stay .
charlz
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Iron Horse said:
That's pretty much my thoughts on it "what the market will bear" we've shown we will by fuel at the current prices... so why would they ever go lower? Interesting that oil/fuel prices are up about 100% since a year ago... world demand could not have doubled in that short of a period of time me thinks....
