RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

Gasoline prices continue to inch downward by millimeters, Sure get the impression that there is maximization of profits going on. Prices vary from a low of $3.69 to a high of $3.75.

Gee guys maybe some can help Will with his diesel rig?????

http://www.youtube.com/embed/-V0WulksI0s

Double fuel tankers will jam in pretty much anywhere, but they fill at night when there is no traffic. Here is one where I saw a double tanker that was parked between the two rows of pumps. They must have had to back out.



I won't be taking the rv through that one, the only way out would be to back up, the turn left is too tight (street is 1-way going left).

Thanks for the link. Glad to see that Love's is getting involved. I read yesterday that a Chinese Company was going to spend $2 BILLION in GNC fueling stations here in the US and was buying up natural gas leases in LA and Mississippi. Changing CNC to LNG adds about 30% to the cost of the raw material I have heard, so there is a trade off with density. I have seen those Kelvar tanks that Westport is using. and they are getting about 600 miles between refueling. Looks like on an over the road truck, they would have a whole lot of room for tankage. There is such a huge price differential it is very hard not to switch. This will make our goods and energy more competitive in the world. Pretty exciting for the future. As far as RV's go, I don't think I have ever gone over 300 miles without stopping. My problem isn't fuel related, but bladder related. I know the drivers are not allowed by law to go over 11 hours, so I don't see much advantage in having a range over that. Those laws are only going to get stricter also.

GM trying to get money for their CNG consumer vehicles. See link:

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One of the barriers to widespread use of CNG is that its energy density is 1/4 that of diesel for a given tank volume. Locomotive diesel users such as BNSF are looking at using LNG, which has a higher energy density than CNG plus they can pull a load of LNG in a tender car. Another large railroad user is Union Pacific, which burned 1 billion gallons of diesel last year at an average cost of $3.22/gal. There will be a rush of railroads to climb on the natural gas bandwagon.

CNG Fueling Tanker Trucks

Change is coming, ever so slowly.

Drove over to Lakeland Fl for the ball game yesterday. Boy a lot of folks already heading up to go home,I guess as the roads had plenty of RV traffic.

We noticed Diesel prices from $4.30 in Umatilla to %
$4.07 in several spots on the way. Lakeland was $4.18.

I normally stop only at truck stops in Fl unless I am on a secondary road as I've fund far to many stations in the cities to restrictive for our setup. OnI 75 i must've gotten off and on 5 times before finding a place to fill and with the narrow streets the getting back to the freeway is always a treat. The only other thing that save you here and on the slab is the book "next exit" they give you an idea of what is there.

Good luck to those heading north, take it slow and steady, look at the weather and remember, another days stop to avoid winds and storms is not a bad thing.

LindsayRichards wrote:
Interesting video of how these folks are paying $1.42/gallon.


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Nothing mentioned on millage or lack of performance but still would be an option for folks who don't care about either and want to go green.

Interesting video of how these folks are paying $1.42/gallon.


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cekkk wrote:

Greydog 1 wrote:
CEO's of major 3 oil distributors had a hearing with U.S. Senate at the request of some senator. It was noted during that session that all 3 CEO's sat in their chairs, looked at the Senator and Reps with laughing eyes and smiles and answered all the questions laughingly. Just to please the Senators, then went back to their offices in their corporate jets and continued to raise prices . That was a few years back now. Any changes, are price related only. Speculators feasted well too.

Were that it were so. As one whose job entailed working at hundreds of US House and Senate committee hearings over three decades, I can promise you that, BS-loaded as they usually are, no one responds with laughing eyes and and answers. You don't make light of those who can give you things you are looking for, take stuff away, or just generally make your life miserable.

The chairmen usually invite either witnesses who hold their views, or ones that they can beat up. It's a useless, expensive process 99% of the time.

speaking of corporate jets, I remember when the big 3 for autos were called into DC on the carpet. the first time the govt. fussed that they took the corporate jets and not commercial. on the second trip, they all flew commercial and had the data to show that that cost more than if they had taken their own jet. :s
bumpy