Diesel prices???
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I filled up at Costco in town yesterday gas was $1.49 I saw diesel at $2.39 at a regular service station
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Oh, wait! is that "real money", for "real volume", or Canoodian "dollars" for Empire gallons? <snicker>
While we're talkin' diesel prices, why is it that diesel prices don't drop equally proportional to gasoline prices? Isn't diesel cheaper to make too (takes less refining than gas)? I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box but if I remember correctly, diesel used to be cheaper than gas when I was a kid.
The main difference in diesel cost from years past is Federal regulations for sulfur content. Use to be 500 ppm (parts per million) now 15. So now it cost more to refine.
Gotta have clean air or we are all going to die an early, miserable death!
Gotta have clean air or we are all going to die an early, miserable death!
Along those same lines, what's the deal with Kerosene? I can't find it any cheaper than $4.799.While we're talkin' diesel prices, why is it that diesel prices don't drop equally proportional to gasoline prices? Isn't diesel cheaper to make too (takes less refining than gas)? I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box but if I remember correctly, diesel used to be cheaper than gas when I was a kid.
The world has definitively turned upside down from when I was younger. Used to be gas, most expensive. Diesel, Cheaper. Kerosene, the cheapest.
I guess it boils down to supply and demand. In any case, it SUCKS!!
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I think you're right with the S&D approach to higher kero prices. We had a kero furnace for heat when I was a kid. As far as heating houses now, most folks have gone to natural gas (where available) or propane. I'm a wood burner myself.
You can go broke heating with propane here, and it doesn't get that cold. I just had my tank filled up with plans of limitless grilling as well as operating a small forge. Cost almost $500, and that was much cheaper than other options I shopped around due to a good size "new customer" discount that saved me about 30%. I remember steel being almost cheaper than wood for building things, now both are sky high and steel is ridiculous. Propane used to be cheap. And when I bought my truck, Diesel was at $1.69 a gallon. I remember because at ~20 mpg I used to harass my buddies getting 10 mpg near $3 a gallon on "regular" gas.
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They had 400 gallons of off-road diesel delivered to the farm about two weeks and it was $2.30/gallon delivered. He said it was the ultra low sulphur. He said he had some regular high sulfur fuel a few weeks before. He also had K-1 in one compartment and out of curiosity I asked how much it was and he said it was $3.25/gallon.
In our home our main source of heat is a 13SEER heat pump with a fossil fuel kit on it to use the oil furnace during defrost, no heat strips, and I have it set to cutoff the heat pump at 25 degrees and then run nothing but the oil furnace. I use a Honeywell 8000 series thermostat with an outdoor temp. sensor to control the heating system. We supplement the heat with an EPA certified Century woodburning insert.
Gasoline is $2.15-2.19 and Road Diesel is $2.69-2.92. Diesel is going up faster than gas around here.
In our home our main source of heat is a 13SEER heat pump with a fossil fuel kit on it to use the oil furnace during defrost, no heat strips, and I have it set to cutoff the heat pump at 25 degrees and then run nothing but the oil furnace. I use a Honeywell 8000 series thermostat with an outdoor temp. sensor to control the heating system. We supplement the heat with an EPA certified Century woodburning insert.
Gasoline is $2.15-2.19 and Road Diesel is $2.69-2.92. Diesel is going up faster than gas around here.
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UP??? That's cheap don't you think, compared to recent prices?
I can remember "gas wars" when regular gas was 22.9!
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Still better then what it was, but it's up 60 cents per gallon compared to what it was a month ago