Last weekend I filled up with the lowest price for diesel ($1.29/gallon) since I bought my car last August. The place is a Mobil station 3 miles from where I live here in Houston close to Hobby airport.

Is everybody else seeing a decrease in diesel prices? Are there others in the group that have seen lower prices?

Herb
'82 240D

Herb
Yes, diesels prices have come down. A few days before Christmas I paid $1.84/gal. Last Fri.(Feb,2nd)I filled up at $1.39. When I bought my first diesel I paid $0.28/gal.
Bill Lewallen Lexington,Ky.Where diesels purr and turbos whirr and our cars are filled with the green coolant.

I just paid $1.64 in southern California, in a fairly industrial area. Prices are more like $1.75 to 1.89 in the fancier parts of town. Price was as high as $2.10 a couple of months ago.

Jeff Naumann
'72 220D 134k mi

Herb,

I saw $1.26/gallon at a Mobil someplace east of San Antonio on a road trip this weekend. There were lots of big rigs filling up over there. Its funny, I always see the cheapest prices at Mobil stations. I go to a diamond shamrock on FM2351 in Friendswood ($1.36).

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2001 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins Turbo Diesel - 4x4, auto, 3.54 gears, long bed
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'92 300D 2.5 Turbodiesel - sold
'83 300D Turbodiesel - 4 speed manual/2.88 diff - sold
'87 300D Turbodiesel - sold
'82 300D Turbodiesel - sold

$1.11 gas, $1.35 Diesel, there going down because the economy is in a dive!

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2000 Ford 7.3 Powerstroke 4x4
2006 Mazda Tribute
1983 Black 300 D (donated to charity)
1993 Teal 300 D (160K) Sold
"I love the smell of burnt diesel fuel in the morning, it smells like ....VICTORY"

Semper Fidelis
USMC 1973-1976

SW

I just passed by the Mobil station where I usually buy fuel and saw that it as come down even further to $1.26/gallon.

BTW, I pass by through on FM 2351 in Friendswood just about every weekend. I'll keep an eye on that Shamrock's prices now that you mention it.

Herb
'82 240D
110,000 miles

Diesel in my area of NJ is running about a $1.50 a gal. At some gas stations, diesel cost more than premium gas, and at others it's opposite. I am in the Air Force and buy my diesel on base. Diesel is currently selling for $1.54, whereas premium is selling for $1.48.

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1999 MB SL500 (110,000 mi)
2004 Volvo V70 2.5T (220,000 mi)
2014 Tesla Model S 85 (136,000 mi)
MBCA member

Sure is good to be in South Carolina. I paid 1.21 for diesel last Friday in Greenville. Unleaded was a 1.23 at the same station. Have a great day.

Paul
1999 E300DT

I just filled up with Texaco "premium" diesel for $1.79 a gallon. I can go to Flying J five miles away and get it for $1.35 a gallon. Thats here in Tacoma, Wa. andy

Prices in the Jackson, MS area where I drive seem to range from $1.65/gal for Texaco to $1.50/gal for Conoco. The Texaco has only gone up; Conoco is down somewhat.

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Ted
1979 240D
165,000 miles

Diesel in St. Louis is $1.299. No lead is about $1.259. We should see the price continue to fall as the demand for home heating oil falls, the economy weakens, and, oh yeah, check out the oil drilling rig count, it's skyrocketing...a traditional indicator that oil and nat gas prices will be falling soon.

Joe

San Francisco: lowest I've seen is 1.649
per gallon. Inner city it still goes for 1.99
per gallon.
My theory is that with the end of the last
president's term, so much 'slick oil' has
come up to surface that Diesel supplies
have gone up!!

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1979 300D 220 K miles
1995 C280 109 K miles
1992 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe 57K miles SOLD
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1979 240D 140Kmiles (bought for parents) *SOLD.
SAN FRANCISCO/(*San Diego)
1989 300SE 148 K miles *SOLD

In the Denver metro area of Colorado $1.51 seems to be a pretty standard price for diesel, regardless of what company you buy from. I have seen as low as $1.35, but the station was poorly maintained and I was hesitant to put their fuel into my Benz.

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Ben

The MBs:
1976 300D (W115) - 330K and still going (sort of)
1991 300D 2.5 Turbo - Sold at 221K
1983 280SEL - Sold at 206K
1981 300SD - Sold at 232K

In Phoenix, AZ I pay the same for premium diesel for the 300D as I do for premium gasoline for the 400SEL. I use Texaco nearly 100% of the time since the station is very close to my home. I always thought that it cost the refiners less to produce diesel fuel than gasoline. I must have been misinformed.

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Richard Seaman
1982 300D Turbo 198k
1987 420SEL Sold
1993 400SEL 123k
MBCA Desert Stars

Many years ago, my brother-in-law owned a truck stop. He told me that he sold hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel for $0.15 per gallon. It seems that diesel fuel and heating oil approach being mere by-products of the refining process.

You can thank the Federal Government for the price of diesel fuel. Once they determined that it was a product in demand, they stacked tax after tax on it, the last being a major gouge (although I can't recall the exact amount) in about 1993 as part of the "middle class tax cut".

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Ted
1979 240D
165,000 miles