Diesel up 4 cents overnight

[L8 APEX]

I checked Flying J online and it went up from 25 to 29 cents today. I am not sure of it is the cold front or the traveling holiday. I often suspected the industry of raising prices on holiday weekends to gouge travelers. I bet it will go back down on Monday...

[danielvalles1]

Well while i was in Irving on Thursday gas was cheep 3.19 better than 3.25 in Fort Worth well in the area i live in.

[L8 APEX]

It went up another 3 cents overnight. Up to 3.32 the corner station up here at 35 and 407 is at 3.49...

[GoldLS1]

Wtf...

[03LightningRocks]

It went up another 3 cents overnight. Up to 3.32 the corner station up here at 35 and 407 is at 3.49...

It's pretty bad when I have to choose the Lightning as my daily driver to save money on fuel.

Fricking diesel should be the cheapest fuel available. Hell, it was the year before I bought my F250. A buddy of mine that lives up north where they use a lot of fuel oil for heating their homes thinks it is because the cold weather raises the demand on diesel(fuel oil) for heating homes and such.

[L8 APEX]

It seems cheaper it probably isn't. premium here is 3.26 so it is within pennies of diesel. I had the same debate with the gasser F250 guys last night. I average 30K miles a year. If diesel was 3.50 a gallon and gas only 3 dollars a gallon. Diesel truck averages 15mpg, V10/V8's get avg 10mpg.
It costs 7 thousand a year to fill up a diesel and 9 thousand a year to fill up a gasser. So you still save two grand a year with a diesel even in the diesel is a whopping 50 cents more than gasoline. If you are burning premium 93 there is not a chance in hell of saving anything.

[GoldLS1]

It seems cheaper it probably isn't. premium here is 3.26 so it is within pennies of diesel. I had the same debate with the gasser F250 guys last night. I average 30K miles a year. If diesel was 3.50 a gallon and gas only 3 dollars a gallon. Diesel truck averages 15mpg, V10/V8's get avg 10mpg.
It costs 7 thousand a year to fill up a diesel and 9 thousand a year to fill up a gasser. So you still save two grand a year with a diesel even in the diesel is a whopping 50 cents more than gasoline. If you are burning premium 93 there is not a chance in hell of saving anything.

Damn thats some intense shit there Terry. :beer:

[SVTJoseCuervo]

yeap.

at this rate...I will have to get me a bike next year

[03LightningRocks]

It seems cheaper it probably isn't. premium here is 3.26 so it is within pennies of diesel. I had the same debate with the gasser F250 guys last night. I average 30K miles a year. If diesel was 3.50 a gallon and gas only 3 dollars a gallon. Diesel truck averages 15mpg, V10/V8's get avg 10mpg.
It costs 7 thousand a year to fill up a diesel and 9 thousand a year to fill up a gasser. So you still save two grand a year with a diesel even in the diesel is a whopping 50 cents more than gasoline. If you are burning premium 93 there is not a chance in hell of saving anything.

I haven't remembered to check my mileage since I started driving the L on the street again. I am hoping it is better than the crappy 13.5 mpg the diesel is getting. Cripes maybe not. Terry...you are depressing sometimes.

[03LightningRocks]

yeap.

at this rate...I will have to get me a bike next year


Hmmmm. I like that idea. I may use that to justify getting the Harley I have been wanting for so many years.

[L8 APEX]

You should ride a bike to work Santa.:santa2

[03LightningRocks]

You should ride a bike to work Santa.:santa2


LOL..Fat Boy jokes???? You know what they say Terry. If you have a big tool, you need to build a big shed to cover it.:cool:

[L8 APEX]

No, it is just the cheapest transportation since you live so close to work. Using a 22ft tank to go 3 miles is a little wasteful. Short trips kill diesel fuel economy. Watch your fleet for idling around on your dime.

[03LightningRocks]

No, it is just the cheapest transportation since you live so close to work. Using a 22ft tank to go 3 miles is a little wasteful. Short trips kill diesel fuel economy. Watch your fleet for idling around on your dime.

We are all over it. Our tracking soft ware is actually working now. They are all aware we are watching them now. I watched one of my dip sh!ts drive 13 miles out of his way and waste 30 minutes time going from one service call to the next, just to score a 39 cent soda refill from some damned convenience store near the shop. My over loaded vans get maybe 12 MPG so that fricking soda cost me 3 bucks in gas and about 13 bucks in labor(counting his labor overhead). Fricking guys seem to be smart one minute and dumber than a rock the next minute.

[L8 APEX]

I don't see how companies afford all that overhead. When I was in a van I could run 6-700 miles a week and 2-3 tanks of gas. That would be 4-500 a week in fuel:icon_eek:. Of course I averaged around 9mpg when everyone else got 12.:icon_mrgreen: I carried more tools and parts than the rest of the fellers:tex

[GoldLS1]

I remember when I worked for a place as a parts runner. They started me off in an old ford van, said my gas mileage was terrible!! I think like 8mpgs?? Gave me a 96 chevy truck (vortec 350!!) and said the tires got bald quick (thing would do MASSIVE PEGLEG BURNOUTS) I took it to get the tires rotated twice to cover my tracks!! Then they gave me a 95 ford escort. Ended up w/ two treadless tires?? I dunno how (Ebrake and front wheel drive FTW!!). Thing would do massive slides and standing burnouts. I must say the tranny in that thing was unbreakable. I beat the shit outa it for about 8 months and it never missed a beat. It was an auto and I always manually shifted it, left it redlined, downshifting only to see it bang off the rev limiter, and always ran it in high rpms. *sigh* Those were the days.

At least I don't work for you ROCKS!!

[03LightningRocks]

At least I don't work for you ROCKS!!

The tracker would snitch you out the first time you did that...LOL Once you got snitch out by the tattle tale, you would only be working for me about an hour. Maybe less if I was in a bad mood that day.:D

[03LightningRocks]

I don't see how companies afford all that overhead. When I was in a van I could run 6-700 miles a week and 2-3 tanks of gas. That would be 4-500 a week in fuel:icon_eek:. Of course I averaged around 9mpg when everyone else got 12.:icon_mrgreen: I carried more tools and parts than the rest of the fellers:tex

The overhead is a huge reason for what it cost to have a good service company come out to your home. Our fuel bills are a major percentage of our costs these days. Rising gas prices have been responsible for most of the price increases over the past two years. Both mine and the ones from suppliers of parts and equipment.

[GoldLS1]

The tracker would snitch you out the first time you did that...LOL Once you got snitch out by the tattle tale, you would only be working for me about an hour. Maybe less if I was in a bad mood that day.:D


Yep thats why I worked for the HVAC company that I did and not the "other" guys!! The other guys had the tracker and we didn't. So I got to play!! :tu:

Dont worry tho Rocks if I worked for you, I'd jam the signal. Big smokey burnout FTW!! :burnout: