Spike in Diesel Fuel ....?

Ricky5 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:34 pm

Anyone know why the spike in diesel fuel? Over where I live it's $2.99. Is it just cause of the weekend?

n3qik · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:12 pm

Home heating oil time, more demand higher prices. Regular gas just dropped 15 cents overnight here.

spoonplugger1 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:57 pm

A barrel of oil coming out of the ground has been going up and down about $10 - $12 lately. Where have you been? Oil for November delivery just went down again today.

Ricky5 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:30 pm

I know all about why they are high, but in the last day diesel jumped 10 cents! I was getting it for $2.89

valoflyby · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:16 pm

Whooo!! Looks like its time to move to Firestone... or at least CO..

I pumped 18 gallons of $3.49 slimey go-juice into mine last night. Thank Gawd for my two-wheelers that get ~50mpg, otherwise I'd be a broke, broke man.

- Jeff

Danno · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:26 pm

Yea, just this morning they went up. I told the wife to just put in like 10 bucks of the cheap diesel, just so i could get to the nice Fleet station in the morning.
She paid like 2.80 and this morning i paid 3.39.

pierce1979 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:21 am

Hiya, new to this board... I have an 05' Liberty Limited CRD, and most of the diesel around the Detroit Metro area been above 3 bucks where gas has been 2.67-2.89, if I find diesel for below 3 bucks i'll usually top off

retmil46 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:47 pm

Been anywhere from 3.29 to 3.59 in my area, 25 miles north of Charlotte NC along I-77. Station closest to home is 3.59. Went 20 miles east to a station that sells B20 to give that a try, Salisbury NC, and they were at 3.39 last Thursday.

They had a news crew from an area TV station there doing a story on biodiesel, so guess who got interviewed and filmed filling up? When the guy asked me if I minded paying a higher price for biodiesel, I'm like "Dude, this is 20 cents cheaper than regular diesel where I live!"

valoflyby · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:04 pm

Now THAT'S funny. I guess that just proves that it is all perspective. If we were paying $4/gal, we'd all be talking how "lucky" those were who were paying $3.59.

(Oh, and I *KNOW* that day is coming.... just a matter of "when")

- Jeff

LibertyCRD · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:52 am

Yeah, diesel here has been $3.19-$3.29 consistently for two weeks now. Gasoline has been $2.75 or so. Can somebody explain this to me? Diesel is in less demand, is easier to refine, and is at less of a shortage than gasoline, yet it's $.50 cents higher per gallon?!? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that we are getting bent over a table. These stations are marking fuel up 200% (it's around $1.00/gallon coming from the refinery).

BUT, it's sort of like insurance...they know you've got to have it so they know they can stick it to you.

Oberkanone · **Joined:** Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:34 pm **Posts:** 26

Every fall diesel prices increase when production of heating oil ramps up.
More heating oil equals less diesel.
Lost refinery capacity from hurricane damage is pushing prices even higher. There has been a surge of gasoline imports to replace the lost domestic refining capacity for gasoline, however, the same is not true for diesel.
We will have to deal with this for some time. How about biodiesel?

retmil46 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:55 am

What burns me is that these guys have made record profits in the last two years, our government turns around two months ago and gives them an additional 3 billion in tax credits, and now they've ran a bill thru the US House (passed by two votes) that will give them even more tax credits to build more refinerys, this after they bought up and shut down nearly 50 independent refinerys back in the late 90's to keep supply tight and prices up. Try watching C-SPAN once in a while, when they're having hearings on the oil industry, it's enough to boil your blood when you hear the GAO (our own government) putting out the above info.

dog_party · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:28 am

Diesel prices are all over the place around here. During my 12 mile drive to work this morning I saw Shell at $3.49/gallon down to Citgo at $2.79/gallon. There is no regulation or consistencey on diesel prices in this area. They just figure the price based on how far away they are from the nearest diesel station...or maybe the flip a coin...or just use whatever numbers are left over in the pile after they shuffle the regular, plus and supreme prices each morning.

At least they're not ALL at $3.49. Or, like that station I made the mistake of exiting the Interstate for in NY, $3.89!! Criminal...just plain criminal.

kjfishman · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:08 pm

Why do people continue to heat with Diesel? Wouldn't it be cheaper to convert to gas or electric? You would think that anything over $2 a gallon would make more sense to convert to another cheaper form of energy.

We lived in the midwest and I remember my dad converting to from oil to gas in the 60's.

spoonplugger1 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:12 am

Natural gas is up 40 percent in the US (average). I hear that natural gas is 70% higher in the midwest than it was last year. Electricity just took a 14% jump where I live in WA.

vtdog · **Joined:** Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:27 am **Posts:** 640

I'm in NH and would have converted to nat gas from oil, but for one reason: there are no gas pipes in my area. In fact, outside of cities here in NH there are no gas lines anywhere. My oil furnace runs at about 84% efficiency which is about as good as the upgraded nat gas units (90%). In case you are interested, two years ago I paid 1.14/gal for heating oil, last year 1.49/gal and this year 1.99. I pre-buy to get the best price, but since I use about 800 gal/year for heating and hot water, its a big chunk 'o change.

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