RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

DelCamper wrote:


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The 90+ dollars a barrel complements of too many USDs is a major culprit.

Yes, as the FEDS continue their printing of dollars from "thin air" the price of oil will continue to stay high, IMHO.

Prices up here remain at $4.19 to $4.29. Lots of complaining from the motorists, especially with the Memorial Day weekend.

Filled up with diesel last week in Alvin Tx.
it was 3.35 a gallon:)

"Believe me they generally run them as long as they possibly before maintenance can and often flirt with danger in the process."

Should have proofed it.

Believe me they generally run them as long as they possibly can before maintenance and often flirt with danger in the process.

I put in almost 30 years in an oil refinery retiring as a shift supervisor / lead operator. Believe me they generally run them as long as they possibly before maintenance can and often flirt with danger in the process. Its called "calculated risk" in the industry. They try to schedule TAs or "turnarounds" with other required changes or in the more times when margins are low to negative. Shutting down when demand is low allows one to capture the market when demand is high. Its called market forces and separates us from communists.

Typically refinery margins (delta between crude and finished product) account for 30 cents per gallon if your lucky except in very unusual times like Katrina. They will go negative at times. Anything less than 20-25 cents a gallon would be day to day unsustainable and if environmental upgrades are required every bit of that 30 cents gallon would be needed. Refining is the nasty side of the business that the majors distanced themselves from as much as practically possible.

The 90+ dollars a barrel complements of too many USDs is a major culprit.

Just topped off in Bend, OR reg was $3.99 and diesel was $3.86, sweet!

Gasoline prices are dropping at a decent rate. Prices in this are now $4.19 to $4.29. well, somebody got a decent bump in their profits for a while while the rest of us paid through the nose.

LindsayRichards wrote:
You have to remember that this is an opinion zone, not a fairness or accuracy zone. All sorts of weird "truths" will pop up from time to time. Need to take with a grain of salt.

Spoken like a true piece of ... salt!

You have to remember that this is an opinion zone, not a fairness or accuracy zone. All sorts of weird "truths" will pop up from time to time. Need to take with a grain of salt.

Greydog 1 wrote:
Shut down for maintenance? No-Shut down for profit. And the fear by the refinery that they may be off line for longer than expected. That brings up more prices at the pump. It's either this way or a planned fire. Remember, we have to do something to increase prices at pump.

That's not very fair, or accurate..

A plant on shut down is not producing and losing money. Plants also need to shut down for maintenance and repairs, switching blends and making changes. If they never shut down and then blow up one day for lack of maintenance, people would then blame them for being greedy and being unsafe.

Gas is less than 10 cents a gallon cheaper than Diesel in the Portland area.