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Old 11-02-2005, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 1983/300CD
Not sure what you're talking about, but if you ship ANYTHING cross country in a big rig, it will cost you more than it did two years ago because diesel is more expensive.

If you can tank up in Fairfax for a lower price, GREAT!
What I was saying is fuel deliverd 50 miles from this tank farm is 50 cents cheaper per gallon than fuel delivered 1/4 down the street from the same tank farm...

Point being is the oil companies have totally arbitrary pricing policies that have little bearing on actual wholesale costs.
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