Diesel Prices going up?
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from the linked article:
The founder of Mesa Petroleum Company, Pickens says demand is so tight that if Iran pulled one million barrels of oil off the market, the price per barrel would jump to $75 in 24 hours.
The founder of Mesa Petroleum Company, Pickens says demand is so tight that if Iran pulled one million barrels of oil off the market, the price per barrel would jump to $75 in 24 hours.
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From: Cypress, TX
Originally Posted by 06dually
Should of bought a GM flexfuel truck, E-85 is 1.62 a gallon. 
Gasoline -> 115,500 BTU/gal
Diesel -> 128,700 BTU/gal
Ethanol -> 75,670 BTU/gal
This means that an engine would have to consume 1.7 gallons of pure ethanol to produce the same output as 1.0 gallon of diesel. $1.62 x 1.7 = $2.754/gallon equivalent. Of course, diesel fuel is taxed more heavily than gasoline or E85, so the equivalent price of ethanol is even worse than the numbers above would indicate.
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T. Boone Pickens is an idiot anyway. The only reason he is rich is because he is one of those lucky few who can fall in the sewer and come out clean as a whistle and smelling like a rose. The only reason he said that is cause he knows it won't just happen and even if it does he probably owns a chain of gas staions and would double his fortune 
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Originally Posted by Blue3quarter
I paid 2.39 yesterday. Reg. Unleaded was 2.52 yesterday then dropped to 2.33 this morning. Some of our diesel startions are 2.45-2.55 but a few are still low and really haven't changed in the past month or two.
matt
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I pay today $2.37 (Valero) for my Diesel, while Premium gas was in the $2.40's-2.50's
Also a SHELL station not far from the Valero was selling "Premium" Diesel at $2.85....!!!!! What the heck is Premium Diesel....????
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I know it is not politically correct (like I give a rats ****) to attack EPA, but much of the cost increase in both our fuel and our choice of trucks is due to them. On the other hand, I can remember when diesel truck exhaust just about made me spew, and every semi on the road smoked like it was burning coal. From what I hear, the premium diesel fuel is much better for our engines, and PROBABLY simulates our adding additives.
I have heard, but not varified that the EPA demands will increase new truck prices by something like $3 to 4K, and I have to disagree with the comment that T. Boone Pickens is an Idiot. The man has called it exactly right for decades. Simple laws of supply and demand, along with the global economy dictate. Windmills are for dreamers, Fuelcells may be the wave of the future, but that is a ways off, and more and more of us are falling in love with the diesel concept. I can certainly see $5/gal being a real possibility.
I hear all this whining, but how many of us are car-pooling, or parking the rig and biking, or taking public transportation? Then there are also alot of very cheap, used, little poopbox cars that would cut the per/mile cost drastically. Bottom line: There are choices, but as I finally had to tell my Mother-in-Law: I think that some of us just aren't happy unless we are miserable.......flame away.
I have heard, but not varified that the EPA demands will increase new truck prices by something like $3 to 4K, and I have to disagree with the comment that T. Boone Pickens is an Idiot. The man has called it exactly right for decades. Simple laws of supply and demand, along with the global economy dictate. Windmills are for dreamers, Fuelcells may be the wave of the future, but that is a ways off, and more and more of us are falling in love with the diesel concept. I can certainly see $5/gal being a real possibility.
I hear all this whining, but how many of us are car-pooling, or parking the rig and biking, or taking public transportation? Then there are also alot of very cheap, used, little poopbox cars that would cut the per/mile cost drastically. Bottom line: There are choices, but as I finally had to tell my Mother-in-Law: I think that some of us just aren't happy unless we are miserable.......flame away.
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Originally Posted by HaulinBut
...Then there are also alot of very cheap, used, little poopbox cars that would cut the per/mile cost drastically......
Still not sure if I want to sell the Miata, been with the truck less than a month and I love it, commuting daily to the office...maybe after the infatuation/honeymoon with the truck is over I'll go back to commuting in the Miata and leave the truck for the weekend getaways......
