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123Guy 08-20-2008 08:26 PM
Diesel price coming down
 
I fueled up on diesel today for $3.859 a gallon on Jacksboro Hwy in Fort Worth. Anyone see any lower prices yet?

NC Benz 08-20-2008 08:55 PM
Diesel has dropped 65 cents per gallon around here.

invol 08-20-2008 09:15 PM
Diesel got up to $5.19 here in SoCal, but I paid $4.65 a few days ago. Still too much. :(

dieselman 08-20-2008 09:34 PM
4.39 in West Virginia. Gas is 3.79 I still don't understand the huge difference.

Bens lover 08-20-2008 10:07 PM
Its $1.58 a liter here in Vancouver BC or if you prefer $7.18 CDN a gallon.:mad:

pawoSD 08-20-2008 10:09 PM
We're getting down to 4.29 in many places now around here. The truck stops are down to about 4.15-4.20......I hope it keeps falling. I filled up at 4.39 last time, way lower than a month ago....highest I've paid yet was 4.89.

However, my fuel has been free lately because I accumulated enough reward points on my credit/fuel card to earn a $100 fuel card! :D thats like 600ish miles of free driving at current prices. :D

David Wilson 08-20-2008 10:54 PM
Paid $3.99 here in southeast VA tonight.

redassag00 08-20-2008 11:04 PM
3.73 on Sunday here.

tankowner 08-20-2008 11:07 PM
$3.95 in Columbia, MO yesterday . . . hoping it keeps dropping. My wife and I decided that if it got below $4 we would have to take a road trip somewhere.

rickhou 08-21-2008 12:28 AM
I filled up last sunday @ 3.99 .It was the lowest I've seen in Los Angeles.

TheDon 08-21-2008 12:30 AM
$4.15.. but for how long?

86560SEL 08-21-2008 12:54 AM
Lowest I have seen here in northeast Tennessee is $4.25 per gallon, but the Nascar race is this week and there are oodles and oodles of diesel pickup trucks and motorhomes from all over the country here this week, so that may be why prices are staying high?

mslinger 08-21-2008 12:58 AM
Diesel prices
 
4.31 here in Portland Oregon area

compress ignite 08-21-2008 01:45 AM
Diesel
 
$3.94 at the Texaco in Forrest Park.

AND

$4.03 at the Kroger in Richmond Hill

AND

$4.25 at the BP in Rincon


DAMN, Marine Diesel is over $5.00

Cervan 08-21-2008 03:28 AM
ive seen it for 4.35 here locally, thats so friggen cheap!

Thecorrupterx 08-21-2008 05:15 AM
spotted $4.17 in Lawrenceville GA

toomany MBZ 08-21-2008 05:36 AM
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David Wilson 08-21-2008 08:04 AM
You guys should visit gasbuddy.com I have been using it lately to decide where to fill up. You would be surprised at the difference in prices locally. Probably 50-75 cents difference from high to low.

JCSC2 08-21-2008 08:11 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson (Post 1944507)
You guys should visit gasbuddy.com I have been using it lately to decide where to fill up. You would be surprised at the difference in prices locally. Probably 50-75 cents difference from high to low.
I agree, gasbuddy is a good source to find the cheapest fuel.
Filled up yesterday for $4.09 a gallon. Highest ever paid, $4.89

AdvisorGuy 08-21-2008 09:02 AM
Right around the corner from work on opposing corners:
PHILLIPS - $4.39
TEXACO - $4.29

SwampYankee 08-21-2008 10:06 AM
$4.53 in central CT

toomany MBZ 08-21-2008 03:02 PM
For those that use gasbuudy, is there a way to narrow down to diesel? I just checked my zip, and a station I know that doesn't carry diesel was listed. Understandable, but it doesn't help.

TheDon 08-21-2008 03:14 PM
how long will they keep going down? How Long?

Shorebilly 08-21-2008 03:28 PM
West Union, West Virginia
 
4.05 at Fairview Exxon

WhoWhat 08-21-2008 08:59 PM
$4.19 in Pontiac, MI.

123Guy 08-21-2008 09:21 PM
Well, I have an update from yesterday - I was driving by the 7/11 on Boat Club Road in far NW Fort Worth (Eagle Mountain Lake) and diesel is $3.449 - it must be a mistake, as that station was $4.499 yesterday. I went home, got the 300SD, went back and filled it up.

LUVMBDiesels 08-21-2008 09:43 PM
Cheapest I have seen it in the DC area Manassas to Harper's ferry is $4.49. That is the going price at all the stations I checked...

I will check out Md and Pa (US 15 and I-78) and NJ I-78 and Rt 17 tomorrow when I head north.

JimmyL 08-21-2008 09:47 PM
These thread's info gets old pretty quickly, but I got diesel for $3.98 today. How bad is it where you're happy to be just under 4 bucks!! :mad::mad:

bgkast 08-21-2008 11:11 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by compress ignite (Post 1944428)


DAMN, Marine Diesel is over $5.00

WTF? why?

pawoSD 08-22-2008 12:11 AM
Its 4.19 now at truck stops....4.29 in the city.....lets hope it keeps comin' down! :D

David Wilson 08-22-2008 06:07 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by toomany MBZ (Post 1944784)
For those that use gasbuudy, is there a way to narrow down to diesel? I just checked my zip, and a station I know that doesn't carry diesel was listed. Understandable, but it doesn't help.
Click on the diesel "tab" over on the left side where your cities are. You can also narrow it down to a certain city.

JCSC2 08-22-2008 09:06 AM
Still $4.09 at the corner of Beulah and Telegraph Rd in Alexandria. It's Sunocco too! NASCAR DIESEL!(LOL)
Off subject, but they just put in new pumps there. I find it interesting that they now have 4 grades of gasoline. 87, 89, 91, and 93. Weird!

Whiskeydan 08-22-2008 09:13 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by bgkast (Post 1945092)
WTF? why?
Captive audience. Kinda hard to drive the diesel boat down to the corner gas station.

So, with this price drop, do we fill 55 gal drums now or wait? ;)

remotemark 08-22-2008 10:03 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JCSC2 (Post 1945225)
Still $4.09 at the corner of Beulah and Telegraph Rd in Alexandria. It's Sunocco too! NASCAR DIESEL!(LOL)
Off subject, but they just put in new pumps there. I find it interesting that they now have 4 grades of gasoline. 87, 89, 91, and 93. Weird!
In Pennsy, all the Sunocos have four grades.

Dee8go 08-22-2008 10:06 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JCSC2 (Post 1945225)
Still $4.09 at the corner of Beulah and Telegraph Rd in Alexandria. It's Sunocco too! NASCAR DIESEL!(LOL)
Off subject, but they just put in new pumps there. I find it interesting that they now have 4 grades of gasoline. 87, 89, 91, and 93. Weird!
I used to buy Sunoco, but when I noticed that they had monkeyed around with their grades (top one went down to 93 from 94) and raised their prices a year or two ago, I started buying Exxon.

I haven't driven Max in a while, so haven't bought iny diesel in quite some time.

JCSC2 08-22-2008 10:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by remotemark (Post 1945263)
In Pennsy, all the Sunocos have four grades.
That's cool, may have had 4 grades before. Never noticed though. I don't buy gas there. Never bought diesel there either until the other day. Gasoline is much cheaper in Woodbridge than Alexandria. My only gripe about Sunoco is they don't sell BEER:mad:! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

rcounts 08-22-2008 12:39 PM
$4.399 in Kent WA - down from $4.999 about a month ago....

Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyL (Post 1945036)
How bad is it where you're happy to be just under 4 bucks!! :mad::mad:
And that seems to be just their strategy. They give all kinds of excuses (demand from China, speculators, hurricanes, seasonal demand, blah, blah, blah, etc.) to jack the price up 60% (from $3 to $5) to a new record level, until we all start really screaming, and then they leave it there a little while until we all start to adjust to it, then they back it off just enough for us to feel like things are getting better. So now the price is only 35% higher than it was a year ago ($4 instead of $3). This is the second round of this crap that we've seen in just the last 3 years.

They are conditioning our thinking. We feel good about it getting back below $4 a gallon now - when two years ago we would have FAINTED at the thought of it being $4 a gallon! They pulled the exact same maneuver on us about 3 years ago - when they pushed it up to over $3 a gallon then backed off to about $2.50.

Can anyone tell me what has changed in the last few weeks to cause the price to drop $1 a gallon? I say NOTHING has changed except our expectations. They conditioned us into thinking the way that they want us to - that $4 a gallon is a reasonable, affordable price. So now they can coast along continuing to make record profits for another couple of years - until they decide to do it again.

Personally I am NOT happy about $4 a gallon, and won't be happy until it gets back down to below $3 a gallon - where it was a year ago.

Dee8go 08-22-2008 01:33 PM
Exxon only made $16,000,000,000.00 in profit last quarter. So, don't be so hard on those guys, oaky?

toomany MBZ 08-22-2008 08:24 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson (Post 1945173)
Click on the diesel "tab" over on the left side where your cities are. You can also narrow it down to a certain city.
Cool, thanks. I missed that.

xdjio 08-23-2008 01:40 AM
I paid 1.399 per Litre just the other day!

Jeremy5848 08-23-2008 01:49 AM
Wine Country prices:
RUG $3.83
D2 $4.17
B100 $4.77

NY300SD 08-23-2008 09:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rcounts (Post 1945392)
$4.399 in Kent WA - down from $4.999 about a month ago....



And that seems to be just their strategy. They give all kinds of excuses (demand from China, speculators, hurricanes, seasonal demand, blah, blah, blah, etc.) to jack the price up 60% (from $3 to $5) to a new record level, until we all start really screaming, and then they leave it there a little while until we all start to adjust to it, then they back it off just enough for us to feel like things are getting better. So now the price is only 35% higher than it was a year ago ($4 instead of $3). This is the second round of this crap that we've seen in just the last 3 years.

They are conditioning our thinking. We feel good about it getting back below $4 a gallon now - when two years ago we would have FAINTED at the thought of it being $4 a gallon! They pulled the exact same maneuver on us about 3 years ago - when they pushed it up to over $3 a gallon then backed off to about $2.50.

Can anyone tell me what has changed in the last few weeks to cause the price to drop $1 a gallon? I say NOTHING has changed except our expectations. They conditioned us into thinking the way that they want us to - that $4 a gallon is a reasonable, affordable price. So now they can coast along continuing to make record profits for another couple of years - until they decide to do it again.

Personally I am NOT happy about $4 a gallon, and won't be happy until it gets back down to below $3 a gallon - where it was a year ago.
That's exactly what I think is going on.

Hatterasguy 08-23-2008 02:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by bgkast (Post 1945092)
WTF? why?
Because it costs at least $500,000 plus an insane amount of insurance to get it out to the boats. The fuel lines alone are well over $100k to run, bulk head is about $1k a foot to install plus a very long approval process.

Around here diesel peaked at $4.99, now its down to $4.49. Hoping it drops another $1.

Hatterasguy 08-23-2008 02:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rcounts (Post 1945392)
$4.399 in Kent WA - down from $4.999 about a month ago....



And that seems to be just their strategy. They give all kinds of excuses (demand from China, speculators, hurricanes, seasonal demand, blah, blah, blah, etc.) to jack the price up 60% (from $3 to $5) to a new record level, until we all start really screaming, and then they leave it there a little while until we all start to adjust to it, then they back it off just enough for us to feel like things are getting better. So now the price is only 35% higher than it was a year ago ($4 instead of $3). This is the second round of this crap that we've seen in just the last 3 years.

They are conditioning our thinking. We feel good about it getting back below $4 a gallon now - when two years ago we would have FAINTED at the thought of it being $4 a gallon! They pulled the exact same maneuver on us about 3 years ago - when they pushed it up to over $3 a gallon then backed off to about $2.50.

Can anyone tell me what has changed in the last few weeks to cause the price to drop $1 a gallon? I say NOTHING has changed except our expectations. They conditioned us into thinking the way that they want us to - that $4 a gallon is a reasonable, affordable price. So now they can coast along continuing to make record profits for another couple of years - until they decide to do it again.

Personally I am NOT happy about $4 a gallon, and won't be happy until it gets back down to below $3 a gallon - where it was a year ago.

Yep, my form of protest is to keep driving cars that get good mileage, and to just drive less.

I want a CDI...

vito 08-23-2008 03:49 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rcounts (Post 1945392)

Can anyone tell me what has changed in the last few weeks to cause the price to drop $1 a gallon? I say NOTHING has changed except our expectations.

Uhm... I will preface this by saying I do not support this individual and have no interest in starting a political debate, but the main reason for the price drop is George W. Bush ended the executive branch's ban on domestic drilling. (i.e. ANWAR, Florida coast, etc..) This scared the living crap out of the world market. Just think what would happen if that commie b***h Palosi wouldn't have sent everyone home early? Thats right folks! The ban would have passed Congress and we would have our 2.50 Diesel back regardless if we actually drilled anything! Just the threat of drilling lowers prices.

mslinger 08-23-2008 08:01 PM
Diesel prices
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by vito (Post 1946232)
Uhm... I will preface this by saying I do not support this individual and have no interest in starting a political debate, but the main reason for the price drop is George W. Bush ended the executive branch's ban on domestic drilling. (i.e. ANWAR, Florida coast, etc..) This scared the living crap out of the world market. Just think what would happen if that commie b***h Palosi wouldn't have sent everyone home early? Thats right folks! The ban would have passed Congress and we would have our 2.50 Diesel back regardless if we actually drilled anything! Just the threat of drilling lowers prices.
As I suggested in an earlier post Pelosi should move to Iran and save Their planet and just leave our planet here in America alone.... we want to drill HERE and drill NOW....The previous poster was absolutely right. Just the mere THREAT of drilling here in America scared the living CRAP out of OPEC and others in the "oil game".... ok enough ranting...whew

LUVMBDiesels 08-24-2008 11:19 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by mslinger (Post 1946348)
As I suggested in an earlier post Pelosi should move to Iran and save Their planet and just leave our planet here in America alone.... we want to drill HERE and drill NOW....The previous poster was absolutely right. Just the mere THREAT of drilling here in America scared the living CRAP out of OPEC and others in the "oil game".... ok enough ranting...whew
Ditto...

However I think the real reasons are the investigations into oil speculation and the fact that this has been a bubble with NOTHING to back it up. Oil should be around ~65-70 a barrel not 130. This is according to oil analysts working with the actual demand for crude, not these inflated prices. I believe that we are going to see a major correction in the price of crude soon. If this price drop makes it to the pumps or if it just means more profit$ for the oil companies remains to be seen...

dieselnutnj 08-24-2008 09:19 PM
It's just a game!
 
Diesel is LESS refined and comes off the refinning system before gasoline. It's a dam shame that something less refined and less processed costs more. It's simple really. .supply and demand. Heating oil is a dirtier version of diesel, and everyone with oil heat needs it. The game is being played by the oil companies who know they can leagally rape us for the fuel. It's sad really. We all need to just revolt lol.


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