I have notice that gasoline over here is 2.69 and diesel is 3.72!!! What's the deal, gas price goes down $0.10 per day and diesel just sits at $3.72... I wish diesel was at $2.99 I would be VERY happy...

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1994 S350 160k mi Garage Queen & prepping for repairs
2005 E320 CDI 203k mi Healthy & Daily Driver
1994 S350 357k mi Retried as parts car
1984 300TD 214k mi Blown OM617 Poss OM603 Swap??

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1987 300SDL 200K+
1994 S320 181K mi
2008 E320 Bluetec 127k mi
1999 S420 130K mi
1980 240D 360k mi
15+ Others that has come, stay and gone

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
1995 E320 SE 220k mi
1984 300SD 350k mi

Diesel is in more demand worldwide. I am on your side, but people in other countries have more Diesel vehicles than we do.

2.69 really, you sure it isn't 3.69?

I just paid 3.77 for premuim. I saw diesel for 3.87 today.

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1979 280CE 225,200 miles
1985 300D Turbo 264,000 miles
1976 240D 190,000 miles
1979 300TD 220,000

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1976 300D 195,300 miles
1983 300D Turbo 175,000 miles

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It's not even worldwide demand. The US demand is highly inflexible. People are still shipping things by truck and rail, both of which consume diesel fuel but not gasoline.

When the price of gasoline goes up, people conserve. When the price of diesel fuel goes up, shipping costs go up, but people don't tend to conserve as much.

Diesel has fallen about 40-50 cents around here in the past month or so. Down to about 3.92 at the lowest, 3.95 to 3.99 at most places.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

2.69??? I bout fell over when I saw it at 3.39 here. Diesel FINALLY fell under $4 today, at a staggering 3.99!

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1992 300D
1990 Ford E-350 7.3 Diesel AKA "the Deep Fryer"

Diesel is still a solid $4.40 here, gasoline $3.70 or thereabouts.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

3.72? I wish I paid that. I paid about 4.15 at the shell, but chevron ACROSS THE STREET is 4.89. Yet another reason why california sucks.

The cheapest ULSD in the Houston area is $3.62/gal. Though B100 biodiesel is available in Houston for $3.49/gal.

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i just bought diesel for 3.73 and gasoline was in the 2$ range.

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1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

pearl black 1983 240d 4speed (Converted!@$$%) atleast the tranny was rebuilt.

Diesel is about $3.80 over here. And for some reason B100 is still $5.39!

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$3.04 in the valley - for name brand premium. Regular is $2.84. For whatever reason it tends to lead price moves over the Houston area. So wait a week or two - it should get there. At least you aren't in Louisiana. I was paying close to $3.90 some place for premium.

Diesel is coming down but slower. The best I've seen locally was around $3.50. Most were around $3.70.

Remember also that diesel = home heating fuel. I just bought 160 gallons of heating oil at $3.79/gal. Diesel is $3.99 today. Both have been falling steadily for a few months. Diesel hangs a lot longer than gas though, where gas goes down a couple cents every couple days diesel holds at a price and then drops ten or twenty cents at a go.

The stations got the shaft as prices went up, they tried to hold prices down and not pass on the increases to the customer. Now that prices are going down they're going down slowly so the stations can make up for profit they lost during the rise. Gasoline stocks are high in the US right now we should expect this trend for a few months anyway.

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Central Florida Diesel is about $.50 cents more than unleaded. 10/7 it was $3.89. As long as its less than 1/3 as expensive as unleaded I'm good. 20MPG for the Explorer. 30MPG for the Mercedes.

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Im in california and diesel is 3.80 something near sacramento. I do feel that once the elections are over the price of fuel will go up. Mark my words.....my reasoning for this is that during an election year the oil companies do not want to be a debate topic. so when fuel starts going down at the pump people such as the ones in this thread get excited and forget about the high price of fuel. Give it two months from today and I would be willing to make a bet that fuel in general will be way over 4 dollars a gallon. thats my two cents worth.

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1977 300d non turbo SOLD
1985 300SD california car
1978 240D Manual