The fuel price here was 3.93 today ang gas is 2.95 so I finally started driving my first gen gasser again. I have not driven it since I bought my diesel but I cannot see spending a dollar more a gallon. Both trucks get the same gas mileage so it it definately cheaper to run the gasser. I keep them both tagged so if the price ever comes back down I will go back to driving it. Why is it anyway that diesel fuel is more expensive than gas isnt it less refined?? The other part I do not understand is how come last week there was a 65 cent difference in gas and diesel and this week there is a dollar difference. I am sure we are all being taken for a ride somewhere here.

 

This thread will most likely get moved, but I wonder the same thing. The war is putting a major drain on oil reserves. JP 4, JP 5, diesel, home heating oil and kerosine are all real close together in the manufacturing process I have been told. I want to go into bio diesel but I don't have anywhere to put it and the start up money isn't there. ther are plenty of fast food restaurants around here and they all pay to get rid of used cooking oils.

 

I parked mine last November and bought a cng f150. CNG here is .63 a gallon

 

I agree, fuel is over $4.19 here and I can't afford to run it anymore, I've got a worn out '81 318 W250 that will be used for grunt duty from now until the end of time by looks of the economy.

 

Sorry for the hijack, but I'm curious. What do you think of the CNG, for power, mileage, driveability and availability? Thanks.

 

I bought a 2001 F150 4x2 dedicated CNG, factory built engine and whatnot to run CNG only and it is great. I can go about 180-230 miles on a tank which deponds on the psi of the fill which is detrimined by the compressor output at the station and air temp. outside. The best I can figure I am getting 12-13 mpgge (miles per gallon of gas equiv.) The bi-fuel trucks can be a little more troublesome with all the mech. to switch back and forth plus the engine is designed to run on gas which results in less power on cng. Mine has plenty of power and really runs great. I bought it with 51k on the clock. There is also a state tax credit of 3k that I was able to take advantage of this year. There is a lot of info. on cngchat.com about state and fedral tax incentives. This is a clean air veichle so it allows me to drive in the metro lane alone and park for free downtown plus my fuel bill went from 100.00 + a week to 25.00 a week.

 

Still cheaper to pull my trailer with my dodge then my gasser chevy.

Andy

 

I'm picking up a beater '92 subaru wagon until the price goes down. It just doesn't make finacial cents for me to commute 76 miles a day in my truck and Erica (my wife) wants her car back.

Michael

 

What are you all gonna to do if it don't back down?

 

Same thing I'm doing now. Ride the bike, and use the truck when I need it.

 

just filled up going to go back to the old gas chevy unless I need to tow my trailers

 

Im gonna start driving my gasser a whole lot now but i need my good ol cummins for towing my race car so ill still use it alot but i aint never gonna get rid of it it is too good of a truck and its paid for. Could be worse we could be in a brand new cummins like my boss gettin 10 mpg towin with his 6.7 and payin for diesel and a $500 truck payment. At least the majority of our 1st gens are payed off so that saves us and we also for the most part get 20 mpgs.

 

Diesel is 3.75 a gallon here in Oklahoma City(the cultural center of the universe) and is not likely to get any better until they start making it from coal via the Fischer-Tropsch process. Several companies are trying to start up but have been delayed by environmentalists (tree huggers). The stock symbols for these companies are: RTK, SYNM, HW, SSL to name a few. The US has 25% of the worlds coal reserves, enough to last for 250 years. These companies say they can produce diesel for a buck a gallon. Call your US congress men and demand they push for this process. India, China, South Africa and Austrailia are already producing this type of fuel.

This fuel burns cleaner and has a much higher C-tain rating than petro diesel and un like bio diesel it can be ran 100% in all types of diesel engines as its lubrication properties exceed petro diesel.

 

don't forget the 270 billion barrels of oil in this country already- that we can't drill for because of the tree huggers ! this oil would be in alaska, off the pacific coast, the altantic coast and all the capped wells in this country. sorry to see you park the truck. i have been making and using bio for a year now. getting harder and harder to secure wvo because of the high diesel prices. "middle man" are going around to the restaurants and signing contracts with them-buying their wvo now and selling it to a local oil/gas distributor that sells it to a bio diesel company

 

I bought a beater last December for my daily commuting (work, school) looks like i am gonna half to make that thing last longer we just hit 4 bucks a gallon up here. I have heard about the process to make diesel from coal, just don't know that much about yet. I was trying to hunt down some B100 because that was usually quite a bit less a gallon then regular if you buy it in bulk, but the local supplier up here don't have it this year. Might be time to get a TDI jetta and leave the truck for trips to home depot and towing only.