On my way to work this morning I noticed that the price for a gallon of diesel was $3.95 at the Mobil station by the Interstate in Burlington.On my way home it had jumped to $4.21 NOT EVEN 8 HOURS LATER!!!! I feel like I'm getting 'pooned.Is it just me or what? [verymad]

nope, not just you- there's lots of members of the 'bend over club'.

$4.69 here in California

WOW! Guess I better fill up on the way home. It is still $3.69 here

It does make me feel better about my $3.55 a gallon right now.

It does make me feel better about my $3.55 a gallon right now.

pretty sad when we're happy about $3.55/gallon.

OMG!! $4.69????? I think Im gonna puke![tapdshut]

This is seriously getting out of hand!! JEEZ!!!

It's 3.89 here in N florida. Just a matter of time before they send this country to its knees!!!

It's 3.89 here in N florida. Just a matter of time before they send this country to its knees!!!

maybe i'll take some of my tax refund, and buy knee pads.

Refund???? Don't say that out loud... they'll ask for it back!!!

Yesterday is was $3.51.... You guys got me afraid to go home now!!! I don't think I can handle passing a station in this mind set :(

Filled up for $3.75 last night. Cheapest i could find. Every where else it was 3.99 or above.

In my area it ranges from $3.89 - $3.69. There is a station down the road that has Biodiesel for $3.59.
This really crazy! It would be nice to see congress and the candidates address some of the major domestic issues instead of worrying about a baseball player taking steroids
Andy

up .23 here in my neck of the woods up to 3.89... I went out with my bouns and some of my tax return money and put a nice down payment on a 06 Focus... I've done some basic upgrades intake and exhaust and getting 37mpg, but I MISS MY TRUCKS!!!

2 weeks ago it was 3.22; last week 3.49; today at 3.69; how much puking can we do until it's just all dry heaves ?

you guys need to do more than just complain about the fuel prices, and be more proactive! What I mean by this is stop buying #2 and start filling with bio at the pump, where you can. Or better yet, make your own! It cost me $20.01 to fill my truck up this week. Thats a savings of $75. Now X that buy 3 tanks a month, and my Bio diesel plant has paid for its self in 7 weeks! So you guys that are making jokes about speneding your tax return on some knee pads, and bag balm, need to spend a little time to educate your self about the alt. fuel sources we have, and stop paying for that oil excecutives $1.5 million yacht!
I do fill for every one who is getting it at the pump. I remember 10 years ago it was less than a $1.00 a gal. We will be paying a $4+ national avg. by mid summer. So support bio fuel research, and production. And stop paying so much for foreign fuel, and buy American! Keep our money state side!

Bob

Keep it topped off - only way the price can go is up anymore and seems to be doing that every day now... $3.79 here now, last night $3.69, last week $3.59...... 87 octane was "only" $3.05

Rolling through Henderson, KY on tuesday listening to the usual cb banter complaining about fuel prices - everyone was talking about how the price of gas went up 28 cents there in one day from $2.86 to $3.14 - a Swifty station was the last holdout at $2.86 and you can imagine the logjam of traffic trying to get in there before they jacked it...

Just Filled up here in NC today for $3.29. so it looks like we have it good so far.

Flying J in Seffner (Tampa area) Fl went from 3.69 yesterday to 3.81 this afternoon. Really dreading going home end of April. No idea where fuel will be by then but may not have enough budgeted for the trip if it keeps going up.

Wonder what this is doing to new truck sales...especially diesels??? It's about 3.60 here last I checked.

How long can this go on for and what will it eventually go back down to (if it goes back down at all!!)? I obviously have a lot of questions [laugh]

were getting ****** to tears on diesel fuel prices [verymad]

seems pretty obvious diesel fuel costs are going to get far more expensive as time marches on ! I think the darn rat bast**** are trying to kill our diesel torque fix ! [verymad]

I may have to start riding the crotch rocket more often for transportation instead of just carving up the canyon roads for an early morning breakfast ride

3.55 here in south texas havent checked it today though

No name station is $3.41 here, everyone else is $3.69. If everyone stopped using Exxon/Mobile, maybe the prices would fall. They are the largest and everyone follows them. $.60 higher than gas...no wonder they posted a $41 Billion profit for 2007. I had to spell BILLION because I don't how many "0's" go behind the 41!

Stop Exxon/Mobile!

Yep its bad everywhere. I work for Arizona State Unv. We have a big research department that just got a major grant on the research for bio fuels. They are already making bio deisels out of algea. They just expanded they grouth tank from 1/4 acre to a 1 1/2 acre area. Kinda wierd seeing all the tanks a bubbling with green.Hope it works out.
The sad thing it's going to take a act of congress to get the bio fuels take hold. There spending al this money on space launches to find fuels from the moom and now Mars. Take half of that money and invest ti into american reseach and development for alternitve fuels WE HAVE THE TECHKNOWLEGY.

Well I filled up last night for $3.56....

Here this though... I went to a rally this morning to listen to Bill Clinton. (don't poke fun) It was a small event only about 150 people. He gave his speech and mentioned going energy indepentent! He mentioned biodiesel as one of the ways. He also said the way to do it is to have local areas start up biodiesel plants and have this happen all over America to spread the jobs. So at the end of his speech they opened the floor to questions, and I mean no pre-selected questions... I raised my hand and waited... He called on me and told him that I looked into starting a communitiy based Biodiesel plant, but the testing and registration fees through the EPA were in the $2million range and priced me out of the market, so there was no way I could do what he was suggesting. He was stumped... His jaw droped and the only thing he could say was "That's just wrong!" He couldn't respond, but to say he would most definitly look into that, because that prevents what his wifes campaign is trying to push for...

Anyway, It was nice to stump him!!! One of my wifes students was video taping it, so I told her not only do I want a copy, but to put it on YouTube!!! So once that happens I'll post the YouTube link for you guys to see!!!

i'm sure he'll look right into that...... right after they put that bio plant next to a hooters! :o:o:o

anybody thinking of buying a scooter yet?

No name station is $3.41 here, everyone else is $3.69. If everyone stopped using Exxon/Mobile, maybe the prices would fall. They are the largest and everyone follows them. $.60 higher than gas...no wonder they posted a $41 Billion profit for 2007. I had to spell BILLION because I don't how many "0's" go behind the 41!

Stop Exxon/Mobile!



$41,000,000,000.00


its all thanks to Ultra Low Sulpher Diesel fuel. it takes more refining. what your paying for is to have clean air to breath. never mind that there are boats cruzing up adn down the ohio and mississippi rivers burning 6000+ gallons a day of Low Sulpher fuel. they could be burning the ultra low stuf and save our pocket books. why should we pay, when we use less then 10 % of all the diesel fuel ever made?


oh, and we fill the boats up, we take anywhere from 15,000 to 65,000 gallons about every 2 weeks, at a whopping $1.85 a gallon. no .09C tax.

iam a company truck driver,i cant imagine how the owner operaters feel when they have to pay to fill both there tanks 200 gal at $4.00 a gallon [verymad]and they probelly have to fill up at least 3-4 times a week:eek:

It's bad for everyone. In the end, the consumer ends up paying.

$3.789 to $3.819 in Plano, Texas today. I paid $3.489 in McKinney yesterday.

iam a company truck driver,i cant imagine how the owner operaters feel when they have to pay to fill both there tanks 200 gal at $4.00 a gallon [verymad]and they probelly have to fill up at least 3-4 times a week:eek:

I wish you would have asked him when we were going to get to drill more in Alaska and off the coast of California.

Well I filled up last night for $3.56....

Here this though... I went to a rally this morning to listen to Bill Clinton. (don't poke fun) It was a small event only about 150 people. He gave his speech and mentioned going energy indepentent! He mentioned biodiesel as one of the ways. He also said the way to do it is to have local areas start up biodiesel plants and have this happen all over America to spread the jobs. So at the end of his speech they opened the floor to questions, and I mean no pre-selected questions... I raised my hand and waited... He called on me and told him that I looked into starting a communitiy based Biodiesel plant, but the testing and registration fees through the EPA were in the $2million range and priced me out of the market, so there was no way I could do what he was suggesting. He was stumped... His jaw droped and the only thing he could say was "That's just wrong!" He couldn't respond, but to say he would most definitly look into that, because that prevents what his wifes campaign is trying to push for...

Anyway, It was nice to stump him!!! One of my wifes students was video taping it, so I told her not only do I want a copy, but to put it on YouTube!!! So once that happens I'll post the YouTube link for you guys to see!!!

3.99 here in central cali.
this crap is getting out of hand.
it's fueling higher prices on EVERYTHING.

Now we have:
1. highest taxes in the history of our nation (I personally paid 48% of my income in taxes this year, fuel tax, income tax, sales tax, etc. etc. [yuk])
2. out of control inflation fueled by massive money supply (M1) and low short term rates [yuk]
3. extremely high oil prices which drive the cost of shipping every single good we buy up. [yuk]

This is a recipe for disaster. There are plenty of nations throughout history who have gone through this before, always ended in collapse. Hopefully we're smarter than that.[dummy][dummy]

I wish you would have asked him when we were going to get to drill more in Alaska and off the coast of California.

Oh sure thats going to happen right away oh sure.........[laugh]

It wil be cheaper for me to stay home from work than to spend the money to drive 100 round trip.

I'm at about "That" point that I am thinking of going back to a gasser!!
I can aford to drive the diesel, but it's the point of it sky rocketing.
I was gettin better mileage with my Denali, but my wife and I wanted to start planning fo retireing and hitting the road with an RV.
We got the Dodge, which I love. Her back sergury didn't go so well so now I might as well go back to a gasser and get a better ride in a half ton as I will not pay what they want for diesel over the long term.

you guys need to do more than just complain about the fuel prices, and be more proactive! What I mean by this is stop buying #2 and start filling with bio at the pump, where you can. Or better yet, make your own! It cost me $20.01 to fill my truck up this week. Thats a savings of $75. Now X that buy 3 tanks a month, and my Bio diesel plant has paid for its self in 7 weeks! So you guys that are making jokes about speneding your tax return on some knee pads, and bag balm, need to spend a little time to educate your self about the alt. fuel sources we have, and stop paying for that oil excecutives $1.5 million yacht!
I do fill for every one who is getting it at the pump. I remember 10 years ago it was less than a $1.00 a gal. We will be paying a $4+ national avg. by mid summer. So support bio fuel research, and production. And stop paying so much for foreign fuel, and buy American! Keep our money state side!

Bob

The flaw here is that if everyone started making their own bio, we'd quickly exhaust the supply of WVO. I have a lock on 55 gallons WVO/week that I get for free. But they're wising up. One restaurant owner hints that he should start charging for it every time he sees me. Luckily, we eat and drink there a lot and he knows my business would go elsewhere if he charged me.

Bio is just a small piece of a comprehensive solution. It's already putting a strain on feedstocks. We sold corn this winter for $4.58/bushel. That's a record for us and you know who bought it? Ethanol plants and S. Korea.

That said, Big Oil needs to be taken to task. They are making extrordinary profits and should be subject to price regulation just as other energy providers are. As I said in another thread, fuel supplies are at a 14 year high yet prices continue to spike. Some is speculation, some is the weakening dollar but the usual supply/demand model is broken here.