Diesel Prices

[ttreibel]

1. 769 at Fred Meyer Gas Station in Port Orchard Last fill was 1. 639 at Flying J in Fife Port of Tacoma road they are usually as cheap as you will get in the greater Seattle Tacoma area... ... heading South on holiday can't wait to pay 2 bucks a gallon guess I will be easy on the go peddle.

 

[Dean Upson]

Re: $$$$

Originally posted by W. A. Derby

$1. 789 in northern NH. I can't believe Dean is paying less in TAXachusetts than I'm paying up here. Well I do believe Dean, it's just that it is unbelievable. Must be the trucking.

Hey Wayne,



Jack's in Sturbridge on Rte 131, always the cheapest. Brand X and I have never had a problem. He is always at least a dime cheaper than other stations in the area. He is independant, and that is why. I will be up in your area same time this year, maybe we can meet up again. PM me. I think you have to pay extra in NH for the Moose Pee that they have to add to the fuel.



Dean

 

[Hawkeye 04]

$1. 44 at several local stations in Spartanburg, SC. Here in NC it's in the $1. 69 range.

 

[EEngel]

OPEC SUCKS

$1. 59-$1. 69 in Minneapolis, MN

 

[HOCummins04]

Originally posted by Ray

$1. 83 at the Safeway station and as high as $1. 93 next to the interstate.



If we all would stop buying from the Big company's MOBIL/EXXON

they would start to hurt and their prices would come down and then so would the others.

Years ago a local Exxon station worked on my car and tore it up bad. Limped into station and had to have a oil pump put on. They did something to engine. Within 2 days oil was black and rods knocking. Exxon would do nothing. Said independantly owned. Traded car at a significant loss. Was in college. No time and no money. To this day, only buy fuel from Exxon if no other choice.



I know most people think Exxon gas is better, but from what I have read it all comes from the same refineries with just different "injector cleaner" additives.



It is not just OPEC. All oil companies have their hand in it, and all local stations are daily raising their rates even when they have not paid more for the fuel that is already in the tanks. That is gouging in my book.

 

[XcumminsX]

1. 80 here in Bensenvile, Illinois (1 mile away from O'hare airport)



prices have gone up 1 cent in the last 2 weeks...





premium here is 1. 99 - 2. 13



Nick

 

[JWChessell]

Fuel prices

185. 9 at an independent convenience store at corner of Sunnymead Blvd. and Frederick St. in Moreno, CA. , plus 5% discount on AAA fuel credit card (Visa) brought it down to 176. 6.

183. 9 at another independent about 1 mile away at Sunnymead and Perris Blvds. , but no cash only, no discounts.



We need to start a fuel price forum, with date, location, price and zip code -- something that we can search here on the website and refer to when it's time to fuel or take a trip. I suggested same to TDR moderator/mgmt about 4 or 5 weeks ago, never got a reply. I'm sorry, but I'm not computer literate enough to set it up myself.

 

[GWDiesel]

Diesel Fuel ripoff

Yesterday at a discount fuel stop,off Hwy

101 in Gilroy CA, $1. 89 per. Gal. X 90 Gal.

To fill up both tank's, and still going up!in

price. GWD

 

[OTRPU]

All these prices are just baby poop! I just delivered in Anchorage, AK. Minus 20 some nights so ran the engine near continuous for heat. Only trouble with Alaska is you have to go through Canada if driving there. In the Yukon I saw 99 cents a Litre. Near 4 of them puppies in a gallon. Everything costs way more. . . not a happy camper. I won't be going back.



Cheers,

Steve J.

 

[AQuaglieri]

Schenectady, NY $1. 69 Hess gas station, On the NY State Thruway I think it's $1. 89.

 

[thejeepdude]

Originally posted by OTRPU

Only trouble with Alaska is you have to go through Canada if driving there. In the Yukon I saw 99 cents a Litre. Near 4 of them puppies in a gallon. Everything costs way more. . . not a happy camper. I won't be going back.

So how many times do you have to fill up in Canada driving to Alaska? I've thought about driving up there someday. Is it a pretty decent drive in the summer as far as road conditions and accomodations and such? I was thinking a couple extra spare tires, couple extra cans of fuel, and some food & water and I'd be OK. Or does this take a lot more planning than that? I tow a big tank to bring some of that 99 cent diesel home!

 

[mklucas]

Driving to Alaska

I did the trip in '97. I left Portland, OR in the beginning of May and then got back to Colorado around the end of June. It was an amazing trip. I had some food, one spare tire (and needed it, your right two would be best), and picked up one spare gas can. I needed the gas only when I chose to get of the AlCan highway and take the Cassiar Highway (580 mile long dirt road, with one expensive gas station/diner in the middle of it). The Cassiar was amazing, only truckers out there doing 50-60 mph on a bad dirt raod. By the time it joins back up with the AlCan you're up in the Yukon. Probably wouldn't need an extra gas can though as long as you fill up before you hit the road in a diesel. Taking the Cassiar saves you about 500 miles on the AlCan.



By the time I hit the AlCan again, I had a busted shock - just hanging there underneath my truck. Saw two bear on the road and one Moose. Saw a lot more the whole time though. The time I needed the spare tire was on the way back from Manly Hot Springs, a tiny little town off the road to Prudhoe Bay - about 80 miles south of the arctic circle. On the way back I blew a tire, had a spare, and then got an extra when I got back to Fairbanks.



It was an amazing trip!!! I would also highly recomend the Homer Spit on the Kenai Peninsula.



Also, by the end of that same summer I had driven all the way down to Key West (southern most point) and had come from Homer (the western most point you can drive to in our hemisphere), and 80 miles south of the Arctic circle. A LOT of miles that summer.



I plan to go up there again, but fuel IS expensive.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Any members viewing this thread from Europe?



If *our* fuel prices have gone up this much, theirs should as well, and were already around $5 a US gallon - what are they now, or has our US price gouging reached over there yet?

 

[fritzimax]

$1. 85 9/10 Long Island,NY

 

[GregTaylor]

ok i saw 2. 65 on friday someware in north hollywood califfornia. i've been thinking about switching to biodiesel but DC has made it very unclear if they will honor warantys. the last thing they need is an excuse. i only know of 2 places in so cal to get the b-20 (20% soybean oil) ventura or long beach. I think i need a second tank to make it work right. i burn a tank a week and ventura is 20 minutes out of the way (with no trafic)... .

 

[R.M.THOMPSON]

$1. 64. 9 here in norteast MD. about 10 cents more in DEL.

 

[DLoughery]

$1. 46 is the best we have currently in Kansas City Mo.

 

[Rattler]

1. 47. 9 at the local Flying J. A penny or two higher on either side.

 

[Tony T.]

$1. 62. 9 gallon I'm seeing here in my neck of the woods today that is. I look for it to get worse before it gets better. Boss at work had planned a trip to Florida for vacation, thats off now. Said he would have a good time at his lake lot hear locally whole lot cheaper. I thought about a trip this summer to Wyoming also, forget that. If it's not a have to trip, I'm staying close to home.

 

[lschultz]

1. 539 HEB HWY 71 Bastrop,Tx