Diesel up again!!
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have a look here to see the avg prices since 2000. just seems like things really snowballed in the last 5 years.
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/spre...1005196?page=3
really is pretty disgusting.
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/spre...1005196?page=3
really is pretty disgusting.
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Originally Posted by redford
You think you got it rough? I just dropped $600 filling up my home heating oil tank.
100.027 gals of #2 in Kyle, TX; $3.519/gal = 352.00 Yesterday.
166.448 gals of #2 in North Little Rock, AR; $3.599/gal = $599.05 This morning.
Will do it again tomorrow morning.
(If your next question is, "how can he afford that?!?", I can't, really. I'm running in winter, "eating my fuel money, no profit till April" mode. Gotta love this idiotic freight rate scheme where the shipping execs still think that fuel is $1.25. Happens every winter.)
I wonder if I can use bio?
That's the major drawback in WI to bio -- It's just too cold for it to stay liquid.-blaine
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From: Stephensville WI
Originally Posted by Frankenbiker
Sure. Anything that can use #1 or #2 fuel oil can use Bio. But I'd hate to have to clean the frozen bio out of the tank if it gets too cold. That's the major drawback in WI to bio -- It's just too cold for it to stay liquid.
-blaine
That's the major drawback in WI to bio -- It's just too cold for it to stay liquid.-blaine
It doesn't get cold in my basement, where the fuel tank is located. that is kept warm in the winter to keep the water pipes from freezing......Hmmmm, I may have to look at this a little closer.
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I should note here that I'm speaking of "commercially processed" bio, versus using Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) or other straight oil. I know folks use WVO in trucks and other diesel engines, but in mission-critical applications, it's a little tricky. And since processed fuel isn't really any cheaper than regular #2, I don't know if it'd do your wallet any good. Pride, sure, wallet, questionable.
-blaine
-blaine
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From: Spokane, WA
So, today gas hit $3.19 a gallon compared to $3.89 for diesel where I live. I love my truck but I can't afford it anymore. I still need it to pull a horse trailer and get monthly 1-ton round bales of alfalfa, but as a daily driver it's breakin' my bank.
I have a full size 1990 Bronco sitting in the yard with a "For Sale" sign going on it soon. A long time ago I was thinking about putting a diesel engine in it but it didn't work out.
Now I'm working on a deal for a 4bt to stick in it. I could get all of the adapters and whatever other parts needed from destroked.com or fordcummins.com
I love Ford, I love diesel, but I do NOT love the sucker punch in my wallet every two weeks for a fill up. 25-30 MPG sounds real good right about now....
I have a full size 1990 Bronco sitting in the yard with a "For Sale" sign going on it soon. A long time ago I was thinking about putting a diesel engine in it but it didn't work out.
Now I'm working on a deal for a 4bt to stick in it. I could get all of the adapters and whatever other parts needed from destroked.com or fordcummins.com
I love Ford, I love diesel, but I do NOT love the sucker punch in my wallet every two weeks for a fill up. 25-30 MPG sounds real good right about now....
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