Noticed that prices are creeping up, saw on the news the various "reasons", including the recent cold spell and more than anticipated demand during the holidays. They said, prices could reach $3.00/ gallon towards the summer. Guess this is a good time to start paying more attention to the Biodiesel threads...

Yea - I watched that on the news a little while ago too. I have been kicking around the idea of customizing the '81 with another tank and a WVO heating systems, etc... This will probably get me going a little sooner with this project. There are going to be some real cheap big SUV's available come this summer. What amazes me is the continuous advertisements on tv for those gas guzzlers.

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Jim

I agree with you, may even make our old (and new) Diesels more desirable, not to mention hybrids. Hopefully Diesel prices will stay in par with gasoline prices.

It won't keep going up. The only reason it went up was to take advantage of everyone travelling over the holidays. They're telling us it will keep going up so that when it doesn't, and comes down instead, we will be happy and forget that they gouged us over the holidays. Same ol' crap...

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1982 Mercedes-Benz 300CD
1982 Mercedes-Benz 240D - stick

I hope you're right. Of course when they do come down, they will never be as low as when they started rising. Same as last year.

What are you paying down there? ~$1.45 here but $1.72 in NY when I was there a week ago...

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1982 Mercedes-Benz 300CD
1982 Mercedes-Benz 240D - stick

Between $1.60-1.75 so far in the Tampa area. Had the last 2 days off from work, so I haven't been far from home. I will know more tomorrow when traveling.

1.65 here ... up from 1.59 a week ago
i'm thinking i should fill every container i can find with diesel in case it gets to be cheaper than heating oil and i end up pouring into it the furnace... :p

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

Just to make everyone in the US feel better, people in Europe pay about $4/Gal on average for gasoline. Diesel is cheaper, but still a lot more expensive than over here. With the falling dollar, America is becoming a relatively cheap place to live. So in other words, stop *****ing.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

True, but Europe also has some of the best public transportation systems in the world. We are lucky to be able to take our cars and trucks for granted.

$1.65 per gallon (diesel) in the Bay Area.

Currently it's a bad time for Americans to travel abroad, especially to Europe or Australia. Cheap dollar is good for attracting foreigh tourists but not for Americans to travel elsewhere.

Eric