Fuel prices
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From: Marietta, OH/Weirton, WV
Oh happy Day Diesel dropped a few cents here. and Ha Ha gas went up.
Diesel was 3.03 and gas was 2.99
Now diesel dropped to 2.99 and gas went up to 3.20 makes me have a little bit of hope for the future.
Jeremy- in WV
Diesel was 3.03 and gas was 2.99
Now diesel dropped to 2.99 and gas went up to 3.20 makes me have a little bit of hope for the future.
Jeremy- in WV
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From: socal
Average is about $3.25 in SoCal my fuel bill has doubled makes it harder and harder to keep truckin, I would love to be able to make enough Bio to run my Peterbilt. Until then i just take the squeegie and as many towels as I can carry.
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From: MI -- farmboy
my bro hauls gas for a gas station chain around here. They buy 90% of their gas from Canada which is made in canadian refineries. Problem is, the owners had no problem rasing gas prices to the same as everybody else, while they are still buying it for cheap as normal. When the the war hit, news said all our gas comes from kuwait oil. Then news said all our oil comes from iraqi oil. Then storm hit, news media says all our oil comes from gulf. Everytime the media is involved, gas is 100% dependant upon where the problem is and we dont get oil from anywhere else at that particular time....... But canadian gas rose just as high, just as quick as gulf gas ? Price gouging ?
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My dad is an owner operator driving a semi and he is currently getting $.55/mile for a fuel surcharge. That would mean an additional $550 to pull something from Chicago to Denver!!! He is actually enjoying it. What we really need to worry about is a law that the feds are trying to pass to put tolls on major interstates. In particular Texas and I think Virginia. These tolls would be anywhere from $.35-$.45/mile for a semi and $.10-$.20/mile for a car. As Dan said above nothing gets there unless a truck gets it there.
Mike
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You can order a veggie kit form greasecars.com, I priced one for my '84 F250 today. Kind of spendy but all the reasearch is done and all I have to do is bolt it in. I'm thinking 1,525.00 for the kit, and diesel in Boise, ID is at 3.15/gal....thats about 500gal worth. I'll make that up in the first year.
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From: New Jersey
Is that in US Gallons or UK? A US gallon has 3.78 liters.
I have a Mazda B2200 that I'm parting out. I'm going to take the gas tank from that and make my own veggie oil conversion. I already have the fuel line heater and fuel preheater figured out. Just have to put it all in motion. It's only a 14 gallon tank, but it's a start. Maybe I should just go to a boneyard and get a bigger tank. I figure I'll mount it in the front of the bed. There's enough room under the truck to mount it except the exhaust is in the way. If I had stacks, I'd probably have enough room to mount the tank under there. I don't want stacks, though, so I'll just mount it topside.
BTW, diesel in NJ varies. Some places it's around 2.70/gal. I saw a place tonight that's 2.59. It went up 4 cents today where I bought it for 2.61 yesterday. I wonder if the place where it was 2.59 was at 2.55 yesterday.
I have a Mazda B2200 that I'm parting out. I'm going to take the gas tank from that and make my own veggie oil conversion. I already have the fuel line heater and fuel preheater figured out. Just have to put it all in motion. It's only a 14 gallon tank, but it's a start. Maybe I should just go to a boneyard and get a bigger tank. I figure I'll mount it in the front of the bed. There's enough room under the truck to mount it except the exhaust is in the way. If I had stacks, I'd probably have enough room to mount the tank under there. I don't want stacks, though, so I'll just mount it topside.
BTW, diesel in NJ varies. Some places it's around 2.70/gal. I saw a place tonight that's 2.59. It went up 4 cents today where I bought it for 2.61 yesterday. I wonder if the place where it was 2.59 was at 2.55 yesterday.
Last edited by matts156; Sep 23, 2005 at 07:17 PM.
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From: Bothell, WA
I paid $3.60 in Stanley, ID last weekend but that's a high remote mountain location and they probably pay more to truck the fuel in. Cheapest I've seen here is $2.93 at the Safeway diesel pump near Bothell, WA.