Ok, so we had a few months where we enjoyed 20-30 cent premiums over the gassers....I was really glad, because it helped me stay on budget.

Now, the best price in town for Unleaded is $1.58 the price of diesel is going up. I paid $1.67 for diesel last night !! Some of the places around town are up in the $1.70's.

Anyone know why Diesel is now the higher priced fuel?

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Not that I'm glad to see these price differences, but I am glad to see it is not just in my neck of the woods. Diesel was well below regular unleaded but now it is 12 cents above. What gives?

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This happens every year at the end of summer, has to do with making winter stocks for home heating oil.

This is the time of the year that math challenged friends make fun of our diesels. A friend has Toyota that averages 37 mpg on the road @ 65 mph and always gives me a hard time this time of the year about paying more for fuel and loosing the fuel cost to his Toyota. I've tried to explain to him that if I get 53 mpg on the road with our VW diesel that's 30% better fuel mileage then his Toyota, and a 5 cent increase in diesel fuel is only 3% increase in cost of fuel. He can't do the math to figure the differrence, not bad for a college prof with two masters. The dork is a history and political science type, smokes like chimmy, as does his wife the RN.

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If you guys can't figure out why you are paying $1.67 a gallon, I certainly can't figure out why we are paying $2.19 in the bay area. We have always had the highest priced fuel in the country. I guess it must be the cost to ship. The nearest refineries are huge Shell and Chevron refineries which are 20 and 40 miles away from here respectively.

Peter

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Here in NH, I paid $1.78 yesterday for diesel, and $1.83 for regular (premium is $1.99). Those are at the lowest priced stations in the area. With $44 per barrel well-head prices, I don't expect to see a price drop anytime soon, and I hate to think about the price of home heating oil this winter.

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In RI prices are 1.77 to 2.10. For some reason the truck stops are higher that the regular gas stations. Sunoco diesel is generally lower proced and is what I've been using for the past couple of years. BTW, home heating is 1.40, wood is 150/cord. Greed and fear are driving up prices. That and globally we are reaching the limit on what can be pumped per day. Maybe this'll push bio-diesel to the forefront.

Just be glad you aren't buying diesel in La Mesa, CA. I was there last week and the sign at one of the filling stations shocked me big time. Bear in mind that for the last year and a half or so diesel has been about the same as mid-grade gas on average.

Here is the price breakdown from La Mesa - regular $2.09, mid-grade $2.19, premium $2.29 and #2 diesel $2.75!

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Wow I would kill for $1.67 diesel! I'm paying between $1.85-$1.95. Although I bet it goes over $2 soon.

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Yeah we had a about a $.20 a gal break over the gassers most of the summer now its $1.74 for reg unleaded and $1.70 for Diesel...they kind of meet in the middle ...gas came down some... diesel went up some...

I've been reading a bunch about bio diesel...if they jack with me too much I'm going to start making my own :p

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http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&s=447609751&f=159605551

Everything everyone buys is delivered by a diesel powered vehicle. If they raise the price of diesel too much they will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. They use diesel as a pseudo taxing authority.

I am paying 1.67 and have been paying 1.67 all summer and yes, the price of unleaded has dropped here also. I see 1.65 stores but only trust the ones that do a high volume. 1.67 is cheap insurance.

Hummm.dsl has been $0.10/gal higher than reg gas for a couple of years now here in western WA.

Diesel is going for about $2.15/gallon in my area, where as I can go to Costco and buy premium for about $2.00/gallon. I know for a fact, part of the higher costs come from the higher refining costs, so that we can have super low sulfur fuel, and the benifit of that would be the importation of many of the diesels from Europe which require low sulfur fuels...

I'm wondering if the oil companies aren't hiding the latest record high crude oil prices behind diesel fuel? Why would diesel go up THIS sharply, while gasoline prices drop, all on the heels of $46/barrel oil?

I thought it was only in my area. I'm used to paying 1.59 and now it is 1.71.
If it goes up high we will be able to buy these diesel cars really cheap.

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