Do you use home heating or pump at the diesel

[toomanymachines]

with the current exchange rate it would be about $4.95. It was that price all winter even when our dollars were almost par. we are taxed much, much higher here in Canada.
just got my t4.. that is the document from my employer stating what deductions were made and how much income tax was paid. If I told you how bad it was we would both be crying.

Last week we received a bonus, from the fed government for being paid less that other schools( I teach on a reserve)
It was gross 1600.. and I took home $876..
No, our fuel prices will never be as low as yours. Even if we are the source.

On anther note. I have two old students that work in the tar sands. One drives a delivery truck moving parts. he gets $35/hr. The other is a heavy duty mechanic and earns $50/hr.

I use heating oil diesel in whatever, even my new vw's. never a problem. Our old tdi jetta has 490 000 kms without any issues.

 

[toomanymachines]

forgot to mention, we have three diesels in Canada. summer diesel, fall diesel and winter diesel. each thinner, and less likely to gel.
I know of some tractors that will gel summer diesel at about minus 10. I try to never stock full blown winter diesel, I usually try to fill my 300 gallon tank in the fall with fall diesel, everything runs it without any issues. It has more btu's than the full winter, so It lasts longer..(does not burn as much).
I once ran winter diesel in my international 254 while rototilling (left over full tank from pushing snow) I burnt half a tank in an hour in the summer.

 

[Looking4new]

I use HHO in mine whenever I get caught between a rock and a hard place. (Out of fuel and money at the same time). Most of the time it is pump diesel with a couple of ounces of Kleen Flo anti-gel. From now until summertime I will only fuel up one of my 3 fuel cans at a time with winter fuel. Once summer is here then I will fill all 3 with the summer fuel.

 

[Oldpath05]

I guess I came close, $4.95/gal., at least under the metric system, it don't sound so bad, $1.35/liter. The last time I got a bonus of $500.00, the Government took almost half, I think bonuses are taxed more.

There are no $35.00/hr. jobs around here, maybe if Canada would build an oil refinery up there for the tar sand oil instead of pipe line that would send it down to hurricane ally, in the southern states, you would have a lot more $35.00- 50.00/hr. jobs, or I could convince all the Maine people to have a pipe line come here, and have tar sand oil refinery built in my town, then I could make $35.00/hr. and get diesel for $2.00/gal.

 

[Oldpath05]

I don't have all these choices of diesel fuel here, all I know about is off road fuel and highway fuel, and still don't know if I should try HHO or not, some say don't because there are no lube additive's in for the injector pump or motor, but the price that I found isn't much cheaper than ORF and I have no barrel to put it in, I'd have to buy that to, so for right now I'll stick with ORF $4.00/gal. and that's a definite maybe.

 

[MikePA]

I spent an hour trying to figure out what the cost per U.S. gallons vs. $1.45 liter, then I ask my wife how to figure it, don't like doing that. Near as I can tell, your paying around $4.90/gal for diesel, and here it's $4.35/gal. I know I'm not good at math, but I think your paying more. I thought with all the tar sand oil in Canada, fuel should be cheaper.

You're comparing the retail cost of fuel which includes all taxes. The cost of just the diesel fuel in Canada may be less, it's just that the taxes are higher. No way to know without more detail.

 

[Looking4new]

I paid $5.25/gallon for my last pump diesel.

$1.389 X 3.78 = $5.25

3.78 is the number of litres in a US gallon.

25-35% is the amount of taxes on fuel according to Shell Canada.

http://www.shell.ca/en/products-services/on-the-road/pricing/fuel-pricing.html

 

[Redneck in training]

You need more pople in Canada. You have way more road lenght per person. Roads are expensive.
I buy off road diesel from our rural coop. I was told that it is the same stuff as heating oil or taxed diesel with red dye added. I burn about 100 gal/year in my tractor. It supposed to be ULS with some biodiesel added for lubrication.

 

[Looking4new]

We've got enough immigrants, thank you.

 

[Oldpath05]

"I paid $5.25/gallon for my last pump diesel." So far, your the official winner of paying the most taxed diesel fuel, but your HHO should be a lot cheaper with no tax, and if that's the case, I'd be using that in my tractor.

But I might be the winner in land taxes, last year I paid $1,200.00/25 acres, on 24'X32' house, with small upstairs, and porch, but with a new 26'X36' garage in the process of being built, when it's done, my taxes will surely increase.