#2 vs. regular?

[DocDetonancour]

The extreme I have seen in Spudland is 3. 34 for #2 and 2. 57 for regular. :{ WTH is going on? What have you guys seen this week? Thanks, Doc 77cents :--)

 

[MMeier]

Today here I saw regular for $2. 52 and #2 was $3. 09. At least the stuff is starting to come down. See OKC Flying J #2 went from $3. 15 Monday down to $2. 55 today, let it keep going down, have to go to OKC in 2 weeks.

 

[nickleinonen]

well, i filled up last tank at $0. 979 a liter on tuesday, and now at the same station it is sitting at $0. 899 a liter... i am tempted to get 4 or 5 big jerry cans and go fill them up and top up my tank... but gas is still $0. 10 cheaper than diesel [back in sept it was the other way around, i got diesel for $0. 939 and gas was $1. 299]

 

[BHolm]

My friend that owns a service staition in town said he just bought gas the other day. Regular was almost a full dollar cheaper than diesel, his cost :{



gas is coming back to reality, diesel is just plain INSANE!

 

[Byershome]

Does anyone remember just a few months ago when regular was more than diesel. Diesel is always late going up and late coming back down. If it was common among passenger vehicles, as it should be, it would probably follow gas prices more closely. I have always wondered though if you reduced the need for gas would you have to refine more crude oil to produce more diesel or can the refining process be changed to produce more diesel.

 

[jwduke]

The ripoffs here are stuck at $3. 329, while they sell gas for $2. 129! Guess I'll drive my car for a while longer.

 

[Regcabguy]

Here in San Diego we just got a new station along the Mexican border. Sixty-eight new pumps and reg. yesterday was $2. 49. The TV news article didn't mention diesel but many big rigs were in there for opening day. Also the Mexican government announced due to extremely high border pollution levels that they would begin importing clean lower sulfer diesel from the U. S. until they can reformulate their homebrew(Pemex) beginning in 2006. There goes the supply again, to a foreign country no less! Must of been the subject of that last meeting between Bush and Fox. Where's Harry Truman when we need him?

 

[Buffalo]

Diesel at the Flying J, here in Phoenix, AZ just dropped to $2. 79/9 from a high, a few weeks ago, of about $3. 12/9. It just started seriously dropping this past week. The cheapest Reg. Gas I've seen was $2. 65/9.



My understanding of the situation is that when Katrina hit destroying much of our refining capacity, everything went up. Other countries started shipping gasoline (not diesel) to us to help out with our situation. Therefore,

we had a greater availability of gasoline.



At the same time, home heating fuel oil (diesel) started being in demand for the winter & our ability to produce diesel was severly limited. We still have our normal need for diesel in vehicles. Since our need for diesel fuel isn't being supplimented by other countries, an apparent shortage occurs, & the price goes up.



It appears our refineries are starting to catch-up, now & the price is starting to go down, a bit.



The thing that was interesting to me was that, diesel fuel at the "J's" in the OK area were more expensive than here in Phoenix. I've never seen them anywhere near as high before, let alone more expensive. We are supposed to be getting mostly California ULSD, here, which, is more expensive.



It will be interesting to see where the price finally bottoms out.





Joe F. Buffalo)

 

[DocDetonancour]

Thanks for the input. Spudland seems about the worst. Must be great profit for the fuel chain, as what can the big rigs do? At least most of us can drive a rice wagon for most travel. Doc

 

[MMeier]

Still @$3. 09 a gallon here. been watching the J's in OKC and Amarillo seeing these two are where I buy most of my diesel. OKC went from I believe $3. 159 Monday morning down to $2. 51 last night when I last checked. hope it keeps going down, have a trip in 2 weeks coming up !

 

[KBennett]

It's about the same here in Utah. I think the oil companies are trying to put the fear into anyone that is thinking of purchasing a diesel vehicle for the sake of economy. I just got the OK from a local fat food restaurant to pick up their used corn oil. Time to put a dent in the oil companies profits.



By the way, I have no problem with any comany making a profit but when they are fixing prices with no competition something has to be done.

 

[2Gen3Gen]

We have the same thing going on here in Oregon. 60 cents between regular and diesel. Almost makes a hemi an economy car.

 

[CoastyAV8R]

Here in South Texas, diesel is 2. 89 while regular unleaded is 2. 12. I'm glad to see prices coming down but I miss the days when diesel was cheaper than regular gas. It used to be where you could count on diesel being as high or higher than regular during the winter months then drop below regular in the summer. I didn't see that this summer but I know it'll be higher this winter. It's still cheaper to drive this than my previous gasser F250 that got 14 mpg on the highway and 11 in town.

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

Regular gasoline here today is 2. 11 and diesel was 2. 73.

 

[DBond]

I have always wondered though if you reduced the need for gas would you have to refine more crude oil to produce more diesel or can the refining process be changed to produce more diesel.

What I understand is that the demand for gas is much higher than for diesel, so it is common to use a "cracking" process to convert some of the fuel oil / diesel to gasoline. That is supposed to balance out the supply between the various products.



I recently got back from 5 weeks in Europe, and was a bit surprised to see diesel had gone from less than gas to $1 more, but that was about 1/2 the price of Europe.

 

[rjones]

3. 49 where I am in Mi then went to 3. 09 then 2 days later back to 3. 36