diesel costs more than unleaded ?

[stompk]

why did diesel prices go up more than gas?

I was buying diesel ( colorado) about 3c a gallon cheaper than unleaded ( lowest octane )

now i noticed that diesel has been about 12c gal more than super unleaded.

what's up with that ! ?

:mad:

[McClane]

You're not the only one that said that. Someone on dto (dodgetrucks.org) noticed that too.

[Josh Brown]

My guess is that diesel use is up with The Iraq war.

[racerX_244]

its like 2.05 for gas and 2.45 for diesel in idaho. silly.

[goinenv]

Thank the Democrats:

Heating oil futures were purchased in huge numbers prior to the election in order to raise the cost of home heating oil and scare voters from Bush. Since heating oil and diesel are similar, the price went up. Watch for a dramatic decline in the next few weeks. I am only adding fuel as needed. It has already payed off, as fuel prices have dropped $0.10 in the last week!

[lbeenken]

I wouldn't count on fuel prices dropping that much. The petrol companies know that the american people as a whole are going to ride around in their SUVs no matter what the cost of the gas. We have a set way of life and nobody wants to give it up and they know this. This allows them to rip us for huge increases whenever they want. Look at prices worldwide. It's nothing to pay $3-$6 a gallon anywhere else in the world.

And we all complain about $2......just a thought

[Bubba_Hemi]

It seems the price went up when I decided to get my CTD... everywhere I had seen before, diesel was cheaper. But now... it's not. I went from paying 2 for my Hemi to paying about 2.38 for diesel. :(

[Meierznutz]

Bubba Hemi, SAVE US ALL< SELL YOUR TRUCK!!! Diesel is a refined grade of Home Heating Oil. Winter is the HHO season and the oil companies like to hammer us Diesel users cause they know they have us by the nadds. This is similar to gas prices going through the roof right before memorial day (summer vacation and driving season).

[Bubba_Hemi]

I'll seel my truck... if you buy me an SRT-10. :)

BTW, I paid a whopping 2.19 today! WOO HOO

[big_perm]

I filled mine up yesterday at $2.19, too. That's not bad for this place, and it is a $.70 drop from last week. This should be illegal. Where is 20/20, or 60 min. when you need them? Too busy with the chicken factories I guess.
The fuel prices change overnight...does the fuel in the station's tanks? No.

[gsbrockman]

I bought my first RAM 2500 new in December 1997 (a 1998 4x4 Regular Cab 12V Five Speed Red Sport) and diesel was $0.72 per gallon....if you were gouged anywhere, you paid $0.85 per gallon.....you could cruise around 600+ miles per tank for not much more than $24 or $25 per tank. The price differential between a gallon of gas & a gallon of diesel, the fuel economy mpg of a diesel vs gasser, and then the added resale of an optional diesel engine (in a Dodge, the added resale of a diesel in a two or three year old truck was usually within $1,000 of the initial price of the diesel in the first place) made the diesel quite attractive 7 years ago. Now we get raped at the pumps and spend $65 to $75 to fill up our same size tanks. Kinda makes you wonder if it's all worth it or not......but it is....see the boost gauge peg out, watch the EGT's heat up, and feel that nice boost plaster your ass square against the seat & seatback...... :soapbox: :D
Greg

[Pointing Labs]

It is 2.39/9 per gallon here and I hope to see it drop a little closer to 2.00 soon. It is because of heating oil and if it doesn't drop now it will in the spring....

[hill32]

I found and paid $2.17 in Vero Beach, FL for diesel this week but normally, what I have found is, it's around $2.29 avg. along Florida's East Coast. Seem's like I'm being punished for trying to save a little $$ thinking I'd get better mpg and better fuel prices, I bought my first diesel in July 2004. I live in Texas but I'm in Florida working up hurricane damage, what are the prices like around Tejas?

[rlk340dust]

Pure & Simple greed is why the price of Diesel is so high. I also never noticed the price of diesel untill I started driving one & I've noticed that it has spiked up dramatically in the past couple of years. I just paid $2.19 here in SoCal. It cost's me about $80 to fill up the tank on my service truck & I fill up 2 to 3 times a week. I also noticed that shortly after 9/11 here in SoCal the price of gas slowly dropped untill super unleaded was about $1.10 a gal. Then the prices started rising up to the levels they are today. Maybe the oil companies "actually" felt sorry for the country & decided to lower the prices. Think about it, with the airline companies grounded a lot more gas & diesel would be used so people could get around, supply & demand usually means higher prices but the prices were going down? I'll get off my :soapbox: now

[big_perm]

I also noticed that shortly after 9/11 here in SoCal the price of gas slowly dropped untill super unleaded was about $1.10 a gal. Then the prices started rising up to the levels they are today.

I've been in SoCal for the past 10 years, and have never seen super unleaded for $1.10 a gallon. I think the lowest I saw it after 911 was around $1.95.

[Colorado]

If you want to go full conspiracy... diesels are very popular in Europe because diesel fuel is significantly cheaper than gasoline. US car mfgs haven't caught up offering small diesel engines. Just VW (and now Jeep). Possible that car mfgs are in cahoots with oil co's to tilt sales toward gas vehicles until fleets are transitioned to diesel?

Less exotic theory... gasoline = mostly "consumers" who can easily decide to cut back on driving. Diesel = largely "commerce" which is going to pay the price no matter what (and pass it on to consumers in increased prices for everything). Sticking it to commerce is a method of sticking it to consumers in a way that "sticks"!

Anyone know if gas/diesel prices went through this inversion in other parts of the world recently... or just US?

Is home heating oil really that big a chunk of the market compared to planes, trains and trucks? I'm thinking it can't be... so I'm not inclined to buy that theory even though it is the one you hear on all the news stations.

[DodgeBoyz]

Thank the Democrats:

Heating oil futures were purchased in huge numbers prior to the election in order to raise the cost of home heating oil and scare voters from Bush. Since heating oil and diesel are similar, the price went up. Watch for a dramatic decline in the next few weeks. I am only adding fuel as needed. It has already payed off, as fuel prices have dropped $0.10 in the last week!

Blame WHO,man you need to take off your blinders :crazy:

You can thank Oil Baron VON BUSH :nutkick:

[Josh Brown]

Diesel figures to be about 12 cents a mile where gas is about 17 cents a mile. That would vary form person to person. I figured about 576 per tank on a Cummins and 400 on a Hemi. (34 gallon) I know it can be more depending. Just an average.

[djh3_88]

Well add this to your fuel type info Jet "A" or JP4 (mil spec) is nothing more than a "hi-test" diesel either and we know our boys are using that up alot over there too. It just is irratating like the man said "soon after buying my CTD the price went sky hi" ARGH

[MSCH2112]

oh, here we go...blame bush and his rich rich friends. whatever.

mike

[xcavater]

Instead of complaining about it, go buy a 500 oil tank with an electric pump this summer. Order a load of #2 heating oil from your friendly oil supply co. when the fuel is @ 1.10 gallon. Save it till the prices go back up next winter and use it then.