What's up with off road fuel prices??

[shade tree welder]

Now, that would not be a first!

My wife says I am wrong all the time...

 

[ovrszd]

And why is diesel more expensive anyway? Before GW Bush, it wasn't. Now it is.

GW's primary goal as President was to make Diesel more expensive!!!

 

[LBrown59]

I explained that the station right down the road from me was selling on road; taxed diesel for $3.10 a gallon.
1*I'm rather confused as to how not paying roughly $0.40 cents (or so) in road tax and buying in somewhat of a bulk purchase warrants $0.30c more per gallon than taxed on road diesel at the pump.
2*I have to wonder about dyed #2 being more expensive than taxed, non-dyed #2. That just doesn't make sense to me. Anyone else notice anything like this? [/quote]
1*It don't warrant it.
2*No it don't make sense.

Just speculation on my part, based on casual observation.
I assume that sellers use a last-in, first-out (LIFO) pricing policy; i.e., they set their retail price based on the wholesale price of their latest inventory replenishment.
3*When wholesale fuel prices are increasing, high-volume sellers would increase their prices faster than low-volume sellers because they replenish their inventories more frequently.
Steve

3*I don't think that is the case here.

4*How much would it cost to hire a truck driver to drive to another jobber and deliver 700 gallons to you? Probably less than $280.00 (700 x .30).

4*Good idea to check out.

I bought some #2 dyed deisel to put into my fuel oil tank at the farm for the Oil heat last friday. I purchased at Saluda Oil Co. In Saluda SC. They sell fuel oil and deliver it. I have a tractor truck service business and do tires all there. I paid $2.58.

5*I wish i had more capacity than the 2 5 gallon cans as all the talk its going up makes me wish i had bought more like 75 gallons.
By the way those of you that say that the dyed is the same as the pump and is ULSD.
6*At least here in SC its not.
7*This is the second fuel dealer who has told me off-road is LSD.
8*The fuel oil receipt they gave me listed 10 gallons of #2 dyed Low Sulfer Deisel.

5*That's why I keep 2 or 3 extra 30 and 55 gallon drums around.
6*You must be in a 5 percent area.
7*but does he realy know?
8*They could be using up their old sales receipts.

9*All 3 suppliers I've used all said they had to move to ULSD the first of this last year.
These suppliers are either not wanting any orders less than a thousand gallons
10*or they are just flat stabbing customers on the price. Oh well, time to make another trip to fill the 100 gallon tank in the back of my truck with the "on road" fuel. I know it's costing me 4 cents a gallon more and I have to make a few trips, but
11*now it's the principle of the suppliers making a killing per gallon!

9*95 percent is now ULSD . They are fast running out of stored lsd.
10*They are gouging people .
11*What these type dealers are doing is they are pocketing almost all of the taxes .

Yeah, back when I bought my 550 gallon diesel tank and transfer pump (just had to get the cool meter with it too so I could see how much I was pumping out and would know about when I was empty) I was paying $0.76 cents a gallon for #2 off road.

12*Maybe my memory is bad, but it seemed like it saved me at least 50 cents a gallon, if not more, compared with filling 5 gallon cans at the gas station with on road diesel.
13*I guess that's my problem;
14*I can't figure out how it's the same price for non-taxed, dyed off road use only diesel as it is for diesel at the pump that has a road tax already added to the price.
15*It just doesn't add up in my mind.

12 *No your memory is fine.
13*No you don't have that problem.
14*You're correct it don't figure.
15*No it doesen't add up.

 

[Duffster]

Took ya long enough. :laughing:

 

[FredH]

Called Yesterday asking for price on 200 gallons delivered app. 25 miles outside town . $ 2.79 per gal. off-road / dyed fuel . Current pump price for Semi's is $ 3.03 to $ 3.09 depending on were . Current price for public fuel .......................... ( drum roll ) .... $ 3.26 there abouts , basically same as super unleaded depending on were you are at .

May wait till after the first of the year , see if it drops some , my luck says it will go up instead :ashamed:

Fred H.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Last week I paid $2.99 for offroad. Onroad is around $3.30.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

LOL I wish I had your problems, our onroad is 4.35 and marine(off road)4.17 and supposedly is going up a bunch next fuel barge.
Rick

 

[etcallhome]

I agree with gouging .. I always blamed WVU for the price gouging I've worked in Morgantown for over 35 yrs .. I could drive to other parts of the state and prices would be 5-10 cents cheaper for gas or diesel .. One of our daughters lives in Martinsburg gas was always 5-10 cents cheaper plus I could buy off rd at the pumps ..Up here only 2 stations over in Pa sells off rd at the pumps and the last time I bought there they were 10 or 15 cents higher than here or Morgantown.
Either way the gas companies have us over a barrel (Theres with fuel).

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good fright (night) !!!!!!!!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Fuel prices jumped here a bunch today. Diesel is now $3.47 and regular unleaded is $2.99

Chris

 

[schmism]

i thought road diesel always went up in the winter due to the heating fuel oil demand (they are basically the same product)

so for every gal you sell to someone to burn in a furnace to heat there house is not an available gal to sell at the pump.... supply and demand....

but yes i agree with others that most "cities" significantly pad the price of the fuel because they can.

I live within 20 miles one of the largest refineries in the midwest, responsible for suppliing MO and IL with like 40% of its fuel.

and buying gas at a station (that gets its gas from that refinery) 10 miles away is 30 cents more than the same fuel that is at a small town 100 miles away? no way! there is no way you can move the fuel to the little tinny town for 30 cent cheaper than the major gas station that gets 2 delivery's a day and is 10 miles from the refinery.

the reality is, they charge more because they can!

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