Onemoparnut

We buy off road for the machines at work and today I went to the fuel station and on road was 4.15 and off road was 4.17 how can that be.

infidel

Someone at the station must have screwed up.

No state or federal taxes are added to the offroad. Depending on the state combined taxes range from 39¢ to 71¢.
Most of the time offroad fuel is exactly the same as onroad except for the addition of red dye use to detect if someone is cheating on taxes.

patdaly

I am not sure any of it makes sense any longer.

I track NY Harbor prices for fuel at WTRG.com, and while our Gasoline prices have fallen roughly with the Contract harbor price, our diesel has not come even close to tracking the fall in heating oil contracts.

Something is fishy when NY oil contracts currently stand at $3.12 / gallon and our #2 price is still 4.50 AFTER the big price fall.

chipmonk

you are 100% correct. i have followed the same, and in many places diesel is the same price as it was when oil was $135+/barrel.
the difference between gas and diesel is that diesel is a necessity, and sales remain high even when the price rises, so there's not a big incentive to lower prices. the price of diesel has dropped the least in areas that saw less of a sales fall off when the price peaked.

Onemoparnut

I dont think it was a mistake the prices were the same today also.

induchman

That's called price gouging and is against the law. Down in Fla, now that they declared a hurricane emergency, anyone that gouges gets a huge fine. But what they should do, is take away their franchise.

2006Mega

a station a few towns over price gounged a couple of years ago and got hit big. they were shut down for quite a while and finally reopened not to long ago.
another excuse for diesel not going down is winter is not to far away so they are probably switching over to more heating oil.