What's up with off road fuel prices??

[wallace]

Dargo
You said it cosst him money when people use a credit card????
Then why is there a cash or credit price?
Also 98% of the companies do not charge the extra % if it is their gas card used.

It just frustrates me that I see a advertised price and when I pull in and fill up my receipt has a different price because I used a credit cart

 

[Diamondpilot]

Well propane is no better. I just had to buy 350 gallons today. It was $1014.90 Ouch. That was getting a $.05 per gallon break for paying at delivery versus them bill me.

Chris

 

[Leejohn]

Diamondpilot

I see you live in Daleville, IN, well you make it to spring on 350 gal ?

 

[Dargo]

Holy cow!! I've been staying with my daughter in a hospital for the last two weeks and hadn't a need for buying any gas. I had to fill up today and it was a full 50 cents more than my last fill up! At that rate, it's probably over $4 a gallon for #2 off road diesel in my area now. I wish I would have had time to make several runs with my little 100 gallon tank in the back of my pickup when ON road, taxed, diesel was $3.10 a gallon (and non-taxed, dyed, was $3.40).

I hear the stories about gas station owners just being the middle man, but several of my neighbors are builders and a lot of the BIG work they have now is major additions to the service station owners. I have to say Bravo Sierra if they claim they are not skinning us alive every chance they get.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Diamondpilot

I see you live in Daleville, IN, well you make it to spring on 350 gal ?

Actually I had 50 gallons left so now I have 400 gallons. My home is very well built and insulated so I should. I use on average 700-800 gallons per year to heat my home (4 bed 2.5 bath 2400sq ft) and hot water so I hope so.

My last fill was in March and made it till this point. I usually get filled in August or September but this year I had my drive paved in April and I did not want anything very heavy on it for 6 months or so thats why I had it delivered early.

Chris

 

[varmint]

Just a thought, but most of the service stations around here that sell diesel also pump "off road" diesel for less... the road use tax, more or less. My neighbor, who's 92, remembers when diesel was 12 cents a gallon for his tractor. A while ago, I guess.

 

[leonz]

I lost my sense of humor when the undyed
clear K1 kerosene I bought the other day
from my Hess station was beet red.

I might as well start hoarding off road
diesel fuel.

 

[jas67]

I've bought from the same company for about 15 years. I am not a big customer. I generally go through between 1000 to 2000 gallons a year. I'm well aware that some go through that in a week or less. Anyway, here's my issue; I called yesterday to buy about 700 gallons and was quoted $3.40 per gallon for dyed #2 off road diesel. WTF?!

It is heating season, and you are competing with the home-heating fuel (same stock as off-road diesel) market. I heat primarily with wood pellets (boiler system, tied in to my central heat) and wood. I also have a fuel-oil fired boiler that was there before the pellet boiler, and used as a backup. This winter has already been colder than normal, and by my calculations, my pre-bought (during the summer, at a lower price) pellets are only going to last through early March. So I called to get quotes on some fuel oil to finish the winter (tanks are low, as I don't use the oil-burner much), and the best price was $3.14/gal. I could have (and should have) gotten it for $2.15/gal during the summer. By contract, on-road diesel is currently $3.39 around here, when it was as low as $2.79 this summer. So off-road went up $1.00, and on-road, only $0.60. I don't get it.

 

[clemsonfor]

The 55 gallons i bought a few weeks back at $2.69 filled the tank on the farm to about 40% capaity (thats on top of what was there) I figure i have 90ish gallons in a 240ish tank??? That is more than plenty to get me through the winter as i may only get there 4 more times this year where i need heat. I just wanted to buy it when it was low. Well 5 gallons or so went into my yanmar to top it off!

 

[Dargo]

The 55 gallons i bought a few weeks back at $2.69 filled the tank on the farm to about 40% capaity (thats on top of what was there) I figure i have 90ish gallons in a 240ish tank??? That is more than plenty to get me through the winter as i may only get there 4 more times this year where i need heat. I just wanted to buy it when it was low. Well 5 gallons or so went into my yanmar to top it off!

Around here, no matter if you're sitting on the side of the road with your tank and the tanker truck is sitting at a stop light, there is a 300 gallon minimum; period. If you have them out and you don't take 300 gallons, they charge $1.00 a gallon extra for every gallon you bought plus a $25 surcharge fee. If you lived where I do, besides getting screwed on the price, you'd have to haul your own fuel from regular on road service stations or you'd be out of luck. It's getting kinda crazy.