Fuel Prices!

BillyP · Feb 12, 2003

Have you ever read the labels on some of that bottled water. I read one that said the water came from the Dallas municipal water system.

It's a scam, 'pure' and simple.

Billy

ejb · Feb 12, 2003

>>Have you ever read the labels on some of that bottled water. I read one that said the water came from the Dallas municipal water system.

I have seen that too. It is amazing isn't it?

Now the water at my property is better tasting than anything you can buy anywhere...and for that I feel very fortunate.

I do however feel guilty using it to flush the toilets with... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

StoneHeartFarm · Feb 12, 2003

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It's a scam, 'pure' and simple.
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"Ice Mountain" is bottled about 30 miles from here. There is a spring, but it's in a kinda swampy area. They drilled this great big well that pumps something like 100,000 gallons a day. Then they put it in 20 ounce bottles and ship it all over the world. While we have a lot of ice, there is no mountain within several hundred miles (if that close). It does, however, qualify as spring water since there originally was a spring.

The locals were not happy about this plant, even though it made work for many of them. If I'm not mistaken, there are still lawsuits in the courts over it.

Steve

PS. Since I'm basically on the same aquifer, that must make my water pretty good, huh?

StoneHeartFarm · Feb 12, 2003

Does anybody know how much fuel (gasoline, diesel, etc) that you can get out of a barrel of crude?

Steve

MikePA · Feb 12, 2003

Here's a link with a chart of the products from a barrel of crude.

cowboydoc · Feb 12, 2003

The ones really making the money off of all of this are the ones selling it. Think about it. It makes all the sense in the world for the middle east to be in constant turmoil. They get to raise their prices as high as they want. They are laughing all the way to the bank and then buy more weapons and plot more ways to terrorize us and the world that buys the oil from them. And you thought your local dealer was bad on service after the sale /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

thcri · Feb 12, 2003

As much as I hate it, but maybe more offshore drilling and maybe up there in Alaska that everyone is trying to protect. I guess I don't understand, Kawait is suppose the have unlimited supplies of oil, we have been protecting them for ten years now. You would think we would be getting oil for some pretty good prices.

Murph

wdn · Feb 12, 2003

I bought some off-road diesel a/k/a #2 heating oil at Ciardelli's in Milford right before Christmas, $1.19 a gallon.

I fill up the tractor before I go to buy fuel, then keep 7 @ 5 gallon fuel cans of diesel. So when I come back from Ciardelli's I have 40 gallons including what's in the BX2200. That's about an 8 month supply for me.

By the summer time the war will be over and the price will be way down, I hope close to what I was paying last summer which was $1.05 a gallon. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Another good reason to store more than you need, just fill up when it's cheap /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jyoutz · Feb 13, 2003

Not really. People buy bottled water, simply because it most often tastes better. Why? well even though it may come from a municipal supply, it has been treated with the "reverse osmosis" filtration process. This removes most of the harder minerals and other substances which make water taste bad. Now my water is good tasting where I live, but I've been many places where the only way I could stand to drink the water is to buy the filtered bottled water. Oh, the keep with the forum topic, diesel costs $1.55/gallon today where I live, up from the $1.49 I paid just last week.

fractal · Feb 13, 2003

( Just filled up the truck yesterday and diesel was about $1.85/gal. First time I can remember it being more the regular gas. )
I remember back in the 70's when my dad was saying he wanted to buy a diesel cause diesel was cheaper than gas. When I bought my kubota a couple yrs ago I was amazed to find that everyone around here who carried diesel charged a couple cents more per gallon for diesel than for regular unleaded gas. Kinda strange since it requires less refinement than gasoline but who knows.