Well, I just got rid of my V-10 in time!!!! I switched to diesel last September after getting 8-9 MPG with my gasser. So, in my eyes, I am getting two times the fuel economy for a few cents cheaper per gallon. However, I think for all the work we have done, and continue to do in the middle east..... Gas and Diesel should be half of what it is costing us now. I don't realy care what other countries are paying for fuel, this is the USA! Hey Kuwait... . Remember us!!!!! I guess not, next time we will let you burn! As for OPEC they can kiss my A$$!
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All this time gasoline has been getting more expensive, but diesel has been holding pretty steady at $1. 699 for the places I get it at - it's finally cheaper than regular! And I got an even 19. 0 on this weekend's mini-vacation - out to Rehoboth Beach and down to Ocean City MD - absolutely the perfect weekend to soak up some sun!
I usually pay about $1. 57 around here, average seems to be $1. 59. It seems to be holding steady there too.
As far as the Hybrid comment, I have a Honda Civic Hybrid, 47 MPG. I don't have to drive the truck all the time!
But if you wanted to stay Diesel, you could always get a VW TDI of your selected flavor.
As far as the Hybrid comment, I have a Honda Civic Hybrid, 47 MPG. I don't have to drive the truck all the time!
But if you wanted to stay Diesel, you could always get a VW TDI of your selected flavor.Look ate the people that smoke and drink beer. Cigs in the 70's were something like 30 cents a pack, now several dollars (I don't smoke) and beer was $1. 25 a six pac and now 4 or 5 X's , yet people still smoke abd dring as much or more than they ever did.
Beef tri tip just a few years ago was $1. 29 a pound, Now its $5 or more a pound. I could go on. Im just trying to make people see that though we are seeing higher fuel prices, we are also spending alot more on the other things in life and doing it. I guess after the November election, we will see fuel go up farther with one guy and decline if the other guy gets in. Just my thoughts.
As for the Hummer quote, I was way too close to getting an H2 last November, but when the wife couldn't park it, I got the Cummins. That was a good move!
Beef tri tip just a few years ago was $1. 29 a pound, Now its $5 or more a pound. I could go on. Im just trying to make people see that though we are seeing higher fuel prices, we are also spending alot more on the other things in life and doing it. I guess after the November election, we will see fuel go up farther with one guy and decline if the other guy gets in. Just my thoughts.
As for the Hummer quote, I was way too close to getting an H2 last November, but when the wife couldn't park it, I got the Cummins. That was a good move!
We're not talking about beer, smokes or tri-tip here...
I doubt very many of us care about fuel prices in Europe - or the MANY factors different than ours that cause those higher European prices (they DESERVE the higher prices they pay because of the political CHOICES they make!)
Smokes and tri-tip are LUXURIES - but FUEL is a necessity that gets us to work and delivers manufactured goods to the marketplace - keeps America productive, employment high, and the country strong!
Oil companies are making record profits - and on last Falls RV trip, most oil rigs in the southern states were silent and idle...
Something's WRONG with this picture!
I doubt very many of us care about fuel prices in Europe - or the MANY factors different than ours that cause those higher European prices (they DESERVE the higher prices they pay because of the political CHOICES they make!)
Smokes and tri-tip are LUXURIES - but FUEL is a necessity that gets us to work and delivers manufactured goods to the marketplace - keeps America productive, employment high, and the country strong!
Oil companies are making record profits - and on last Falls RV trip, most oil rigs in the southern states were silent and idle...
Something's WRONG with this picture!
Originally posted by Gary - KJ6Q
We're not talking about beer, smokes or tri-tip here...
I doubt very many of us care about fuel prices in Europe - or the MANY factors different than ours that cause those higher European prices (they DESERVE the higher prices they pay because of the political CHOICES they make!)
Smokes and tri-tip are LUXURIES - but FUEL is a necessity that gets us to work and delivers manufactured goods to the marketplace - keeps America productive, employment high, and the country strong!
Oil companies are making record profits - and on last Falls RV trip, most oil rigs in the southern states were silent and idle...
Something's WRONG with this picture!
I think Ill take a drive in my truck and go buy some tri tip. . Im hungry...
I see that you missed my point. It was about inflation. Nothing else. I also dont drink beer. I was just compairing the inflation. :-{}
Diesel was~ $1. 85 locally (SF Bay area) but just shot up at a dozen or so stations around here to $2. 30-$2. 40 a gallon (more than premium. ) Did manage to find a station for $2. 17 though. Prices seem to go up daily.
You'd think that with five oil refineries within 20 miles of here that fuel costs would be the cheapest in the country... . whatever happened to the windfall profit tax. Oh yeah... can you spell inflation... maybe we will be wearing 'whip inflation now' buttons again.
You'd think that with five oil refineries within 20 miles of here that fuel costs would be the cheapest in the country... . whatever happened to the windfall profit tax. Oh yeah... can you spell inflation... maybe we will be wearing 'whip inflation now' buttons again.
Calif is a problem in itself. With Arnold Kennedy in office, you guys don't have the lower prices that the other 49 states have. But, I might add that in the San Francisco and LA areas, Diesel has ALWAYS been more expencive as it is what powers the "yuppie" mobiles that all the soccer moms drive. Supply and demand. Wish I owned a gas station in those areas!
I saw a report about fuel prices on the educational channel.
I remember the . 25 / gallon in the mid 60's. Adjusted for inflation that . 25 is 1. 85 now which is about right.
It took several things like electricity, fuel, clothes, incomes, housing and took the 1965 price and did the inflation adjustment and most things were not too far off.
That 2. 00+ I think is local gouging, no specific documentation to prove it though.
I would dearly love to be able to run bio diesel all the way to pure renewable veggie oil in our trucks and tell the middle east to F... OFF!
When the oil is no longer a prized commodity then their sand will still be sand and little else.
It is a crime that they rake in so much money and their population does not even have the minimal life support services like potable water, electricity, roads, infrastructure. They have absolutely NO interest in their people except what the minimum is to stay in power.
Bob Weis
I remember the . 25 / gallon in the mid 60's. Adjusted for inflation that . 25 is 1. 85 now which is about right.
It took several things like electricity, fuel, clothes, incomes, housing and took the 1965 price and did the inflation adjustment and most things were not too far off.
That 2. 00+ I think is local gouging, no specific documentation to prove it though.
I would dearly love to be able to run bio diesel all the way to pure renewable veggie oil in our trucks and tell the middle east to F... OFF!
When the oil is no longer a prized commodity then their sand will still be sand and little else.
It is a crime that they rake in so much money and their population does not even have the minimal life support services like potable water, electricity, roads, infrastructure. They have absolutely NO interest in their people except what the minimum is to stay in power.
Bob Weis
Originally posted by JDerbedrossian
just filled up 30 gallons. 75. 00 dollors:--)
Back in '97/98 I lived and worked over in the "working" part of England (Birmingham). It wasn't unusual to put the equivalent of $75 worth of fuel into my little Vauxhall Cavalier. At the time, regular was pushing 80 pence per liter. Doing the math (the exchange rate was $1. 75 or so per pound), I was paying over $4. 50 per gallon.
The cars had much fewer emissions controls on them. I once figured that if I took my '97 cummins over there I'd be putting in $150 each fill up. Now, I have an american friend living in London (has been since '94) and he is finally giving up and moving back. The last time I talked to him gas was over $5. 25 for regular.
As for driving a big truch? I drove a Honda Civic for 2 years and got tired of being run off the road by every distracted driver around. If you can't see me now and you hit me, I hope you're driving something big! A small price to pay (I do about 25,000 miles a year, so it does add up) for my and my families well being.
To quote (loosely) - "They can have my truck when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers".
Juan
I fail to see the comparisons being made to the rising costs of fuel and "inflation". I think that the primary complaint is the rate at which diesel is rising, and the fact that diesel is a less expensive product to produce than gasoline, yet is as much, or more (in CA at least) that unleaded gasoline. Point in case? When I bought my first Cummins in 1998, Diesel cost 90 cents a gallon. It was under $1 for some time. That was only 6 years ago. At that same station now, they are charging $2. 29. Maybe you are all luckier than I am, but I am not making more than twice what I did in 1998, nor am I paying more than twice that for the rest of the products I am having to purchase, food, housing or clothing included.
Maybe this is "just the way its going to be". Just don't try to right it off as inflation. Inflation is only a small factor in this big equation.
Kev
Maybe this is "just the way its going to be". Just don't try to right it off as inflation. Inflation is only a small factor in this big equation.
Kev
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I have my own theory on this, I think it is because I just bought my first diesel and it's a fuel guzzler 600. Ouch!:{
UMMmmm - lets say you are a wealthy Texan with a large oil field - and with the oil wealth you have accumulated, you dabble in stuff like oil commodities...
You can buy foreign crude oil for, say, $25 barrel in volume, and resell it domestically for $35 a barrel...
OR, you can have your OWN oil from your own oil fields pumped for about $20 a barrel at domestic prices - and get maybe $30 a barrel from the major refiners - roughly the same profit margin, but you make the profit on the foreign oil while you sit in your easy chair - pumping yer OWN takes work, wear and tear on your equipment, and depletes YOUR oil resources - which route would YOU take to making $$$$ hmmmmm?
It's ALL about $$$$!
And those MAKING the $$$ could care less about how we get to work or our goods get to market - unless and until it starts to affect THEM!
You can buy foreign crude oil for, say, $25 barrel in volume, and resell it domestically for $35 a barrel...
OR, you can have your OWN oil from your own oil fields pumped for about $20 a barrel at domestic prices - and get maybe $30 a barrel from the major refiners - roughly the same profit margin, but you make the profit on the foreign oil while you sit in your easy chair - pumping yer OWN takes work, wear and tear on your equipment, and depletes YOUR oil resources - which route would YOU take to making $$$$ hmmmmm?
It's ALL about $$$$!
And those MAKING the $$$ could care less about how we get to work or our goods get to market - unless and until it starts to affect THEM!
Hey guys, I would love to have the under a buck diesel again. Dont get me wrong! I just was trying to say that in all things, wages, inflation etc, the price of fuel, even at $2 a gallon, it still beats walking. I myself, would be happier if it was 75 cents like it was a few years back when I was buying off road fuel for my John Deere's. No offence ment on this thread. Just trying to figure things out myself. I still wish I owned a fuel station in Calif!
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