Do you use home heating or pump at the diesel

[Looking4new]

I just paid today $1.469/L or $5.55/US gallon for Shell V-Power high test gas.

 

[Looking4new]

but I don't know where to find out how much tax we pay in Me. for high way diesel, maybe it's .10 cents/gal.

Here are the gas taxes for all of the US states.
Gasoline tax information - Maine Gas Prices
That is a chart. It shows all the states with gas being the first column, diesel the second column and 'other taxes' the third column.

 

[ENIGMA]

My mother passed away 9 years ago. We rebuilt her house and installed a heat pump, leaving us with 75-80gallions of HHF. Been running that in my 2006(?) Kubota without any issues. On a side note, tried some 10 yr old diesel also. No problem with it either other than the exhaust stinks worse than usual. Bottom line, I wouldn't hesitate to run HHF if Off road diesel wasn't available.

 

[john_bud]

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.

So.... fuel tax in europe and japan must be way cheap then? They have more people and lots less roads... right?

 

[toomanymachines]

We are taxed VERY high in Canada. Our tax free day is june 6. So every dollar we earn up to that date is paid in tax. My sister use to work for excise tax.. I think a lot of people would be surprised at how much tax is underlined before we get taxed again at the retail end. So close to half of our money is lost to our government.

Health care, well it may be free, but it is paid for long before we ever need it. I lost my father sooner than need be because of our free health system. When you have to wait 3 to 6 months for test or surgeries. I would rather save my money, buy good insurance and get something done right away.

 

[OldMcDonald]

So.... fuel tax in europe and japan must be way cheap then? They have more people and lots less roads... right?

Too subtle john_bud.

 

[Oldpath05]

According to that tax chart, I'm paying $.31/gal for tax, that don't sound to bad to me, and we have Obama care or at least some do, I pay for my health care, $58.00/week+$15.00 co-pay when I go see my psychiatrist.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I talked to an economist a number of years ago about relative health care expenditures in the US and in Canada, and he claimed they were nearly the same on a per capita basis. The biggest differences are in the rationing mechanisms...namely, in the US it is who can afford it, whereas in Canada it is who can survive the waiting for care.

So as to not drift off-topic too thoroughly...I have been using HHO for over a year. I resent paying "road" taxes on fuel for a vehicle that never goes on the roads. Right now, highway diesel costs over $0.36/l more than HHO (which is $1.213/l). So this would be (1.213 x 3.785)= CD$4.59/USgal. At an exchange rate of .90, this works out to a local (PEI) price equivalent of US$4.13/USgal.

As an (yet another) aside, Canadian RAM truck ads claim up to 36mpg...but they are using imperial gallons as the basis for this calculation. Canada is a nominally metrified country, but its historical ties to the Empire and close economic, geographic and cultural ties to the US let folks mix and match measurements in all kinds of perverse ways.

Bob

 

[Oldpath05]

"The biggest differences are in the rationing mechanisms...namely, in the US it is who can afford it, whereas in Canada it is who can survive the waiting for care"

I find when it come's to health care, there are 3 kind's of people, if your rich, there is no "rationing mechanism" and if your a politician there is no "waiting for care" and if your like me, you go on TRACTORBYNET forum, and try to find out if it's ok to buy and use ORF or HHO in the tractor so you can save some $$$$$$, and then go buy some aspirin for my headache I got for trying to find out if it; ok to use HHO in a TRACTOR. yes no yes no yes no yes yes yes yes yes,

There you have it, the YEA'S win...

 

[Oldpath05]

"Canada is a nominally metrified country, but its historical ties to the Empire and close economic, geographic and cultural ties to the US let folks mix and match measurements in all kinds of perverse ways."

Looks like Canada is not that bad of a place to live in, you have close ties to the Empire, I watch Star Wars, and from what I can tell, that's a good thing, least you don't have close ties to the Dark Side, and if I tried to build my garage with (mixing and match measurements) by using a standard tape measure with a metric tape, I'd probably be 12" out of square instead of 3" I ended up with at 14' high, that would be more perverse than paying $4.3500/gal, when the same store sells ORF $4.00/gal, I think, But wait, I seen on the news that the Dark Side just invaded Ukraine and the oil speculators on Wall Street say the oil is gonna go up, way up.