Local Price for Diesel just went up from $2.43 to $2.47 overnight.


Forget being "nice"..........


Premium Gasoline is only $2.43

 

Yep, it's getting downright obscene!

I am canceling an RV trip to Calif. and another to Oregon this summer/fall. Prices out there are about the worst in the country. I'll NOT fund Big Oil's pockets any more than necessary.
We'll stay MUCH closer RVing in state this season. My travel budget can't afford these prices anymore! It's tough enough filling up for $70 just to get to work.

Wonder when the Govt is going to DO something about Big Oil's enormous profits and the raping of the American economy?
How about re-instating the Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil and subsidising US fuel prices?
The dam govt can subsidise everything else! Why not fuel?
And why oh why is Diesel taking the brunt of this price gouging?
How long will this last before NO ONE can afford to buy fuel to get to work?
How long before the entire economy collapses like in 1929, because no one has any money left to spend on necessities OTHER than fuel?

Dark days are coming...

 

Soon if we dont stop the fuel prices.

What most people dont understand is that everything they buy has to be trucked to the place were they buy it. That trucking coast money and when fuel for the truck goes so does the cost of the trucking. When fuel prices go up not just fuel prices go up, everything goes up. Everything must be transproted by somesort of car, truck, plane, or boat. The prices of most other things haven't started to go up, but some of the things have.

I have seen lots of people start driving less. Many people have started to carpool and are trying to find ways to save fuel.

 

With the summer vacation season approaching, maybe it's time to contact our local congressman and let them know about the trips we were planning on taking to touristy spots around the state.
Also letting them know we won't be able to go now because the price of fuel is so high we can't afford to travel and have money to spend for family enjoyment at the same time.

If enough diesel driving consumers would do this, we might be able to get their attention......it worked for the Soccer-Moms when gasoline got high.
Our Govt is selling our diesel fuel overseas to help reduce the import-export imbalance.

http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA456085.html
From this link.
Meanwhile, diesel prices are rising--and it’s got a lot to do with global purchasing growth, which is influencing the domestic market, analysts say. For example, rising demand and prices in Asia gives European refiners a financial incentive to send fuel to China, limiting the amount that is available for the U.S. to import. And analysts also suspect that a significant portion of the diesel produced in the U.S. is being sent to Europe, where prices are higher, tightening domestic supplies. "Our estimates are that exports are soaking up an additional 200,000 barrels per day or so of U.S. diesel, perhaps about 5% of U.S. demand," says Tom Kloza, director of Oil Price Information Service, a Lakewood, N.J. provider of industry data.

 

Yep. In Texas we export diesel fuel to Mexico.

MikeyB

 

see the above edited post........

 

Boating industry (pleasure that is) has to hurting because of this. I know people like to say that if they can afford the boat, then they aren't worried about the fuel dock. But, I disagree.
I just filled up tonight, cost me $60.00 (that was where I HAD to stop, not where it "clicked"). It hurts almost EVERYONE. It's around 2.35-2.40 round here so far, huge drop from when the heating oil demand had it @ $2.25- $2.30. Shew, glad that temps are up in the North East!!

 

The government is really blowing it by not preparing for an instant oil shortage that would throw us into a depression overnight. From what I've read world oil demand has gotten so tight that a terrorist attack on a Saudi tanker port or a government overthrow in Nigeria could boost the price per barrel to over $300 the same day.

I know a lot of people complain about not releasing oil from the strategic reserve but continuing to fill it during these high prices but it's my opinion they should be filling it even faster for the emergency that is bound to happen some day.

 

They ought to really push carpooling or more public trans or taking over an oil rich nation. The strategic reserve should not be touched. Fooling with that now will just add to the overall problem (I think?)
Is this the next 9/11, and we just don't know it? Meaning that we are slowly being "attacked" and don't know or can't react fast enough??

 

So what's going to happen in winter, when diesel distribution has to compete with heating oil distribution? Diesel at $3.75/gallon, gasoline at $2.10?

 

My opinion and the way I see it.

Oil man Bush...... why do think we are in Iraq....... to disrupt the oil market.......and we are paying in more ways than money.

Don't people think anymore before they vote. Couldn't beleave after what he done in his first term people voted him back in.

 

Here we go again........

MikeyB

 

Hey they voted comunist clinton in twice

 

Check this out...
From the movie of 2010 "Something wonderful is about to happen" or maybe it wasn't that movie.

quote:
That was followed by al-Qaeda attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia, and a terrorist incident at the Valdez oil port in Alaska. By the end of the exercise, according to economic projections prepared for the group, the U.S. economy was in recession; home heating-oil costs had more than doubled; and the price of filling a midsize SUV's tank had risen to $125.53.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200...ricescouldsoar
Could include National Guard and Martial Law? I wonder if they are greasing us to get us ready for something?

Jim

 

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to blame the Prez.

10 posts?........ you guys are slacking off.

That STILL doesn't explain why diesel is still higher than gasoline.