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Just filled up with $3.71 Diesel

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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 03:42 PM
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Just filled up with $3.71 Diesel

On the bright side, I did get 19.4 mpg.... mixed driving.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 03:45 PM
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I bet its only going to get worse. 3.85 here today.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 03:47 PM
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I gotta get the rust out of my barrels so I can start using Jet A more often...
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 05:18 PM
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$3.89 here, saw $3.99 a couple weeks back. Have seen as high as $5.20's in the past.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 05:20 PM
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$1.22 per liter in Ontario. That's $4.61 per American gallon.
You guys have it good.....
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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$1.22 per liter in Ontario. That's $4.61 per American gallon.
You guys have it good.....
I can hardly afford to drive. Don't know how you can afford to in Canada...
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:08 PM
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Union 76 station by my house regular gas $377/gal, diesel $415/gal.
Glendale, Ca.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:10 PM
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I've been shutting my truck off at long traffic lights and starting it in first gear if I'm no facing uphill. Seems to me really helping the mileage. Feel like a dork though...
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mhuppertz
On the bright side, I did get 19.4 mpg.... mixed driving.
Wow.... 19.4mpg ?

I thought I was doing well @ 14 MPG. I guess I have a lot to learn.

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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:31 PM
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14 is the worst I can get, and that was pulling a car on a trailor at 80 from San Diego.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mhuppertz
14 is the worst I can get, and that was pulling a car on a trailor at 80 from San Diego.
I just got 19 mpgs on 1940 miles, mostly city driving. Usually do mostly highway driving, but I have been at home restoring my 1920s home...Mark
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 06:49 PM
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can't wait for 50 degree weather to hit southeastern pennsylvania so i can run french fry oil (wvo) again.come on spring!
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:24 PM
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It hit 3.89 at Frenchman Valley Co-op here in McCook. Ag Valley in Indianola I didn't see today, but they were 15 cents higher than the Sinclair here a few days ago, and Sinclair was 3.79 today. I did a (peg-leg) burnout leaving, I haven't heard tires squeal on that truck since last fall, before Ag Valley went to a 50/50 fuel blend. Casey's runs blended fuel til mid-April, I hope Ag Valley doesn't.
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Old Mar 3, 2011 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mhuppertz
14 is the worst I can get, and that was pulling a car on a trailor at 80 from San Diego.
Any suggestions at improving that crappy mileage I'm getting ? It's bone stock from what I can tell.
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Old Mar 4, 2011 | 07:34 AM
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I get ~ 17ish these days, around town...as long as I don't drive like a complete a-hole.

I filled up at $3.69 the other day. $88.50 for the tank...definitely the most I've ever spent on one tank of fuel for anything I've owned.
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