Ouch, it's still around $2.85 in CO.

Bio $2.92
Petro $2.72 in some places in the Big-D
...reg $2.95

Even biodiesel is cheaper than gasoline!!!!

Yeah their minimum wage is about $3.50/hr, BUT their cars get 50-60 mpg.

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I can boast when I'm paying the same or less than gas, because a diesel gets such good mileage. It sucks when I have to listen to clacking at
$2.50/gal. for diesel, when gas is at $1.89/gallon. It totally erases any benefit of owning a diesel in the first place!

Jeff 1991 300d

As old as this thread is,

I would like to mention that diesel prices around my area have been rising, while gas has been falling. New Hampshire..

Diesel is still generally higher than premium unleaded, as we come into spring. Unlike the rest of the country where the opposite is true.

Actually, we are experiencing the same thing in Austin, TX. Diesel is 10 cents more than Super Unleaded, in most cases.

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1993 Ford F-250 7.3 IDI diesel 165K (Biodiesel)
1996 Thomas/International Bus with DT466 engine

With the warmest winter on the books diesel is still going up here in NC at $2.80/gal. That's higher than premium unleaded. But its always been higher than any gasoline here.

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1983 MB 300D - > 430,000 miles - Deep Blue - Bilstein Comforts - 0-60 in 24 seconds - 27MPG
1985 MB 300TD (wagon) - > 275,000 miles - Manila Beige - Thule rack - 0-60 in 18 seconds - 22 - 25MPG
Biodiesel, Mobil Delvac 1, and Viton fuel lines!

maybe in raleigh, but never in chapel hill, charlotte, greensboro or gastonia areas.

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I'm 100% fine with the higher prices. It still only costs me about $35 every two weeks to fill my tank.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love cheaper fuel but the higher price is not hurting me.

Last time I filled up at my usual truck stop about a week and a half ago, fuel was $2.519/gal. I'm sure it has risen much higher than that, since I've seen as high was $2.699/gal at various stations around town. I purchased some ASTM certified B99 for $2.50/gal on Friday.

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Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

I am very pleased that you are getting upset at us "fringe fuel fanatics" , you know the ones that you don't like here!!! Well, Mr. One Way....I am leaping with glee as you fill that humongous SUV......it must be taking a couple of cents from what you gouge your other gasoline customers......

Sure the price of everything goes up......but I will gladly pay more for the groceries that I don't grow myself.....as long as I can watch you pump that expensive stuff into your fuel tank.....and laugh and laugh as I think about the "one way" attitude coming home to roost......

SB.....one of the Triple F bunch

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Diesels:
'85 300D, "Max, Blue Benz", 155K, 27.0 MPG
'84 190D 2.2, "Eva, Brown Benz", 142K, 40.2 MPG
'77 240D (parts car)
'67 Eicher ES 202 Tractor "Otto" (2cyl, Air Cooled, 30HP)
Gassers:
'94 Ford F-150, "Henry", 170K (300 Six) 17.5 MPG
'85 190E 2.3, 148K....Parts Car
'58 Dodge W300M Powerwagon (Flat Fenders) Less than 10 MPG

I was looking through the threads I started and was amazed that this one took off, with over 2500 views. Well it's now one year later (from when I started the thread) I'm pleased to say that Giant Eagle (a grocer) offered double fuel perks when you bought gift cards this past Christmas. So, I bought virtually all my Christmas gifts, several gift cards paid for the hot water tank that decided to leak, all in all I got 90 FREE gallons of gas this winter, even subtracting the 40 Gallons I gave my wife, I still managed OK as far as fuel costs go. Now I'm looking forward to picking up another 300SD, I have about 150 gallons of WVO stored for summer use, I'll be paying roughly 50¢ a gallon for fuel. Or approximately $100 for the summer's 6,000 miles. Most others, however will pay anywhere between $600 and $1000 for the same. Hmmm, ,,


As far as grocery prices go, yes they will go up, but the higher fuel costs represent only a small fraction of the total cost.

Take for example an 18 wheeler (gonna do the math on the fly here) If his rig gets 8 MPG and he drives 60 MPH he burns 7.5 gallons an hour. At $3.00 a gallon fuel costs are $22.5 per hour, or about what the driver earns if he drivers for Schneider, Roadway, Overnite,,, The trucking co's costs for the driver are almost twice his wage so We'll estimate $40 / hr. No we gotta figure out how much maintenance cost per hour of driving. (This will be very low around $1-$2 /hr add another $1-$2 for the cost of teh truck new) so at $3.00/gallon the trucking co pays roughly $65 / hour to move goods. At $6.00/ gallon that cost just went up to $87.50 / hour or about a third. So doubling the fuel cost increase delivery cost by about a third. But Uncle sam knows this and the mileage deduction goes up to offset the additional fuel costs, so maybe in reality the additional fuel cost increases 1/4 to the total costs of delivery.

Yes retx we did have a wonderfully warm winter, until "blue Monday" (January 22 when it got cold here in Ohio) Nat Gas prices didn't drop like they should have, I guess it was pumped to somewhere that needed it more. Home heating oil didn't drop much. The price of firewood dropped, because no one was burning fires in their fireplaces because it wasn't cold, (firewood prices rebounded after the coldsnap).

So why the high gas prices? Because SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR THE WAR. and since some of the tax is a proportion of the TOTAL price per gallon, the higher the price per gallon the MORE money local gov't gets ( who then will get cuts in Federal aid). Ain't no congressman gonna get the price of gas to drop, don't let them fool you. Sure they'll investigate Exxon and mobil and BP, but guess what, they won't find anything, because if they did and the price of gas went back down to $1.50 per gallon the Gov't would only get a fraction of the windfall profits tax they are getting now. multiply that by the millions of gallons ,,,
So as you drive your SUV, you're buying bullets and Bombs for the Army, and you're buying AK-47's and radio controlled detonators and IED's for the opposition. Another thing I've wondered about. Who sells fuel to the US Army? Surely the army, navy and air force don't refine their own fuel, and how much does the army pay for their fuel? I seriously doubt if the armed forces price per gallon fluctuates like it does for the rest of us. Prol some secret classified on-a-need-to-know basis agreement between the oil companies and the army.

Enough ranting and raving,,,

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1987 420 SEL

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I'm running 100% biodiesel, now that the weather has warmed . It costs me $.68/ gal.

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'83 240D 264k on 100% biodiesel/ 31mpg
83 300D 217K the $800 gem
'82 300D 267K the new WVO project car finished and driving for free
International tractor B275 on B100
Ford 555 backhoe on B100
Sargent 25 ton Rough Terrain crane on B50