Record Diesel engine fuels price thread.

Tanada

I have wondered for a while why we don't have a thread dedicated to diesels fuels, you know farm equipment, OTR trucking industry, and a few private consumers all need the stuff to operate. Not to mention that home heating oil is essentially high sulfur Deisel fuel, and Kerosene is essentially Deisel #1 fuel as used across the northern tier of states in winter.

So here goes, I checked four stations yesterday in my area and all of them had diesel in the $3.55-$3.59 window. Harvest is just about over here but local drivers are stuck with the situation. OTR trucks that head south or east are runnig with minimum fuel so that they can fill up when they get out of this high price zone of fuel, the ones heading west are pretty much stuck with things as they are here.

When I checked Kerosene was still $3.33, it doesn't sell very fast because around here it is mostly used for stand alone heaters for garages or out buildings.
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purdum · Tar Sands Joined: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 31 Location: MI, USA

Tanada - do you happen to know if the price of delivered home heating oil is the same as either retail kerosene or diesel gas? I would like to get a weekly or monthly figure for the local price of home heating oil (we switched over to geothermal from oil and I am tracking how many $$'s we're saving). There's a state government web site which shows average heating oil price but it was always low compared to the rate quoted on my bill (maybe it's wholesale?). I could call the oil distributor and ask them, but it would be easier just to look at a kerosene or diesel pump.

purdum
(central MI, where diesel was $3.799/gal at a few places last night)

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Fishman

I think diesel is the straw that will break the camels back. Every drop of food, every scrap of clothing, brought to you by diesel. Even my family members who don't believe/ have any inkling of peak oil are starting to understand that diesel drives the world around us.

TreebeardsUncle · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 15, 2006 Posts: 542

Hi.

Saw deisel selling for $3.80/gallon here at the Campus Shell Station at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Howe Avenue in Sacramento.

Note this:

Just 3 years ago oil was selling for no more than $50/barrel. Now, it is selling for about $100/barrel. Gasoline has come up from about $1.50 to $3.00 a gallon. At that rate oil should be $200/barrel and gasoline should be $6/gallon in 3 years. That will be enough to really do some damage to the airline industries and some to the trucking industry as well. Expect automobile drivers in the US to be relatively less affected.

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Tanada

Tanada

Just went and topped off my car tonight, the local Marathon is now $3.69 for Diesel and $3.38 for Kerosene. I think the Kerosene is left over from last spring, nobody has been using it all summer.
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Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov

Tanada

Well topped off my car again tonight, my local diesel prices are $3.59, $2.69 and $3.69 and the one place I checked Kerosene has rocketed to $5.12!!! Crazy considering it is for portable heater 90# of the time and the super refined version they use for jet fuel sells for under $3.00 at the airline hubs!

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DomusAlbion

Diesel has been as high as $3.85 this last week from Moscow, ID to Lewiston, ID
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whereagles

Diesel is about 65% of fuel consumption around here.

Price has been around 1.2 €/litre or around 4.54 $/gal, 50% of which is tax.

Tanada

HOLY CRAP!!!!!

Diesel went from $3.39 four weeks ago to $4.19 today! That's up from $3.89 yesterday!
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Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov

emersonbiggins

Huge spread here in Dallas - most are around $3.69, but I saw one @ $3.89.

I filled up for $3.49. Cheapest I've found. Cool

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MarkJames · Tar Sands Joined: Dec 25, 2007 Posts: 63

Our heating oil, kerosene and propane customers aren't too happy with the prices this year. That's actually a good price for kerosene. Some stations are over 4 bucks a gallon at the pump.

Roy · Last edited by Roy on Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:26 am; edited 1 time in total

$3.65 here for diesel, $~~3.15~~ $3.24 for regular unleaded.

The TDI Jetta is still the preferred method of transportation at my hosue due to its superior mileage compared to my other car which only gets about 30 mpg.

edit: regular went up again today

AirlinePilot

Just made this Sticky, its definitely worthy of that.