OT-diesel fuel price

This is scary!!! I was just looking on the internet for reasons that diesel fuel is more expensive than unleaded gasoline. The reason that I kept finding is that diesel is in more demand than it used to be.

I was actually going to post this same thing in the Other Topics forum.

To say the truth I'm pissed with how things have gotten. When we first got our 2001 Dodge Ram with the Cummins diesel, fuel was 84 cents per gallon!! The day we bought it new the dealer gave us $50 to fill it up and we got to pocket the rest. Now I drive the truck everyday to school and diesel is about $3.40 PER GALLON. It is a real pain in the rear to fill up that 34 gallon fuel tank. What cost about $40 in 2000 cost me $95 now. I don't see how the hell this can keep going. Thank God a tank of fuel will last me about 2 1/2 weeks.


Sorry for my attitude. The more I thought about it the dumber it seemed and the madder I got.


Edited by AllisChalmers37 - 24 Feb 2011 at 6:09pm

$ 3.67 last night and have been using about 30 gal as day for last 4 days.

Yes getting paid for the use of truck but rate has not changed so every time fuel price rise i loose money out of my pocket.

 Yet with car and pickup also as one day filled car at $3.14, next day it was $3.11 and now $3.26. Put $80.00 into pickup the other night to plow snow and see I have 1/4 tank left now. 15 hours of plowing and all the profit into the tank, sure makes one wonder why ones stays up all night.

 

I dont want to look like a smart you know what but,

Back when fuel went to $4 per gallon, diesel inverted over gasoline pricewise, and has not come back down. The best reason that I heard then and it made sense then and now was that all of Europe had switched to fuel from gas, to the point that they were running short on diesel, and were long on gas. Specially our beloved friends and allies who cut our throats every chance that they get, France! We were shipping diesel over to France, and exchanging it for gasoline, and then importing gas here. I can see how some bright minded souls could figure a profit in this kind of exchange, both from the available differences in fuel prices and the fact of having a loaded boat in both direction. Just good to know we are supporting "true friends" in this fashion, as I suspect nothing has changed!!!   Dipstick

$5.04 Cdn. a gallon here now and still going up! I'm sure there will be fewer guys hauling tractors to shows this summer!!

Most stations around here have been selling ultra low for $3.55 lately. I buy low sulfur diesel at a little station for $3.22. And that station had been selling it for $3.02.

Refining process of oil does not generate more diesel or more gas, it is the quantity of volatiles in the oil that determine the quantity of oils or solvents in crude, there is a way to generate more gasoline by passing light ends from refining through a secondary process stack where it is re-engineered to make a gasoline quotient.  The oil coming into the US has a good volatiles level but the fact of demand being high doesn't make the end result cheaper.  Re-refining to remove sulfur is expensive and we now pay the cost of that at the pump as well. 

Diesel here passed the $3.50 mark yesterday and according to our distributor we will see $4.50-5/gallon by end of June.

Saw a guy on CNN last night talking about gas( diesel has to be same..), billions of barrels in the ground in USA and you could employ lots of people to get them so ALL of America wins, except for the 6 guys who control the market.

Maryland is trying to add 35 cents to the gallon tax on fuel to help with their deficit. Need to lay off some dead beat state employees!. Bill

Chllgr528 You would be surprised at how much road tax is used for steel wheels on train tracks. I just can't find any sympathy in my bones when Obammer starts talking high speed rail will save the nation. Maybe in the overgrown corridor on the east coast, but why the hell do our trucks and the rest of us have to support their bad habits, and overpriced expenses. At the same time our roads for rubber tires are going somewhere in a handbasket! Ranks my gears when trains come into a town and switch crews, they'll bs for a half hour or so, then the old crew goes home while the new one gets onboard, meanwhile for all that time the traffic can just wait. High speed rail my catoosie, they don't give a dangit(think that will pass the thought police whie the rest understand what I really meant)!!! I know that nobody ever gave me any money to help expenses when I had my trucks, just gave me the opportunity to spend it!! Joe

Dipstick, unfortunally most americans are stupid (or ill informed) and they don't realize that EVERYTHING someway somehow is moved or powered by diesel. Every store in america gets their products delivered. From the food that comes from farms to trucks that deliever clothes to the store in mall. Everything sold reflects the price of fuel. People complain about the price of milk at the store but that milk is transported by truck atleast 3 times. I mean come on when are people going to wake up. Hell gasoline gets delievered to the gas station how??????

You guys should try living in England where the price of road diesel equates to about $10 per gallon!!! Unfortunately, successive governments in the UK have used fuel tax as another way of grabbing even more of our hard-earned money to squander on "public services" (like the nhs etc etc etc etc..) which they have half convinced the masses that they need!! It's crazy over here, so be glad that you are in the 'States!

A 42 gallon barrel of crude oil makes about 19 gallons of gasoline and about 14 gallons of distillate fuels. No more, no less.

Robinson Trucking, a year ago in March I had a rear axle break, not sure whether the power divider or the back one, never explored far enough to find out. This was the last truck I had  after doing away with drivers who didn't care and etc. I was hauling grain at the time and had gone through a very slow harvest because of the moisture and slow drying capacity. Expenses were eating me alive with the decreased income and when that axle broke I decided enough was enough. At 69 years, I just simply did not want to put more money into repairs with not a very good outlook ahead. As the rest of the year turned out, hauling was minimal because the grain graded so poorly much of it was shipped by rail to Illinois to alcohol plants instead of Lafayette, In for food grade usage, by truck. Turned out I was right because my friends had a very rough summer ahead. They did well last fall, but does one ever re-coop lost revenue? I now drive a fertilizer tender and get paid very well and have no regrets.   When these idiots yammer for more business taxes, more control(ie: laws to fine outlaw trucks), more freebies for the poor working stiff who is lazy to begin with, it is just very hard for me to sypathize with their plight!!!! 

3.85 a Gallon in Central PA....put my Dually up for sale yesterday....Having 2 diesels is stupid at this point....for all the more the camper gets moved, I'll buy a big block chevy and spend less in the long run....and a gasser doesnt mind sitting like my Powerstroke does....6.0's dont like to sit....another thing that is ridiculous, and I'll argue my point if I have to.....I do all the time because my BIL is in the trucking buisness...its absolute bull that we have to pay road tax because we buy diesel in a pickup truck, VW diesel, etc....that tax was set up for the wear that BIG trucks put on our highways....yet all the money they take our roads are still crap....there is no reason for it.