Diesel prices in your area

[Jessiah]

Just paid 4.89.Bonney Lake, Wa. I'm having to to work overtime, lots of OT to pay for the rising cost of eveything. The super rich are getting it all, all my money and all my time.

[irocz28]

Here in md near va. Saw it $4.75

[RedDye01]

Just some math for fun. If you drove to work 5 days a week and work was 10 miles one way, you'd total 100 miles a week. Say your truck gets 16mpg at $4.75 a gallon. Thats $29.68 for the weeks worth of driving. Now say you rode a bike to work one day a week. You can average 15mph on a bike fairly easily, meaning it would take you 40 minutes and some decent exercise to get there. You still end up going 100 miles total for the week but end up spending $23.75 in fuel. If you combine your biking mileage into your trucks mileage, your price per gallon would drop to $3.80! If you rode two days a week diesel would theoretically be $2.85 per gallon. I realize you cant realistically combine biking miles with vehicle miles to get a "new fuel price" but its fun just to see the numbers. Its possible to do unless you live in a very rural area where a bike ride to work would lead you through mountains and snow and leave you with a good thick coat of sweat and a brown racing stripe up your back.

[DavidPhillips]

Interesting. My first thought was that we use our trucks at work. Then I was thinking maybe you could leave it at work and do this.

Unfortunately right now I drive 1300 miles to work. I would never make it in time. I did ride my motorcycle to the office for a meeting last week. I figured it saved 70 gallons of diesel and used 40 gallons of gas. Half price with the difference of premium gas vs diesel.

Your savings on a bicycle would be way more than fuel alone. Maintenance cost is next to nothing on a bicycle.

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Last edited by DavidPhillips : 05-22-2008 at 06:48 PM.

[muder]

4.71 today in Grand Island up.18 over nite wtf where is it going to end this is BS. Deisel should be cheeper then gas I think they are just putting it to us.

[DieselFord]

FYI;
http://www.phoenixgasprices.com./for...&msg_pg=2&FAV=
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Central Valley Business Times -- With pump prices for diesel fuel at all-time highs, California refineries curtailed production of the fuel last week, the California Energy Commission reported Wednesday.

Weekly Refinery Production And Stocks Levels

[WB6UHQ]

499.90 Sacramento as of today, at Shell, 485.90 at independants.

[Super Kaz]

Jumped to $4.59 today, just in time for labor day weekend.

[WB6UHQ]

Yeah, they got us dont they... SOBs.... at 4.999 Im hurting.... starting to think Bio may be the way to start thinking....

Sacramento

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Last edited by WB6UHQ : 05-22-2008 at 09:22 PM. Reason: JPG TOOOO LARGE

[Alberta 99 F250]

Here in Alberta we have so much oil but are paying the same prices as everywhere else 4.70 a gallon US. Even though we have it, we are paying the world market price. I wish we were like venezualla and had cheap prices domestically and sold the rest on the world market at market prices.