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Pop-Pop C wrote:
Our first trip to Indiana and Michigan. I did not know about the difference in price of "AUTO" diesel and the "Truck Pumps". You cannot fuel private vehicles at the "big rig" pumps at either Pilot or Loves. Won't even hold your card and let you fuel. I have been from California to Florida, and Texas to Montana, and this the first time I have experience this. Price is about $.25-$.30 more for a RV/private vehicle.
Having not been to the exact locations you are talking about I can't say for sure, but being in the trucking business myself I'll make a guess that what you are seeing it the price of fuel minus State Fuel taxes. Many trucking companies pay their fuel tax quarterly or once a year, and not every time they fuel their trucks.
So in many situations the advertised price you see on a billboard or lighted sign is the price truckers pay and not the price private vehicles have to pay. Yes it can be deceiving and confusing. Hope this helps with your experience and observations. HansLindsayRichards wrote:
I love my ScanGuageII. I think just paying attention to it can increase you mileage substantially.
X10 I got and have continued to get 9% better mileage from the very first trip with the Scan Gauge. It paid for itself very quickly, can't imagine not having one. :C- I love my ScanGuageII. I think just paying attention to it can increase you mileage substantially.
- Just gassed up for the first time in a little over 2 months (been recovering from knee surgery), and paid $3.21 for regular. My Scan Gauge shows that the last tank in the beginning of May was $3.11. Not much of a change especially since it has been $3.21 for over a month here in Tucson. :C
- Diesel 3.79 at one station today when I filled big Red. Had a couple of parties to attend and felt the Big Red Truck might help some of the drunks to see me, LOL.
I hope stuff gets back to normal tomorrow with the worker bees returning to work.
Stay safe this summer seen a couple of "older" 5ers hauling boats (20') up the freeways and driving like there was no tomorrow, maybe for them there isn't considering how they were bobbing and weaving thru traffic. I backed off and let them go they were going well over 75mph. - Just trying to keep you informed, but I guess it is a lost cause.
- Got my fuel bill for last month ..................$25.25. Used a 1/2 gallon of gas $2.00 = $27.25
No Diesel this month darn the TT is eager to hit the road as wet as it has been the mosquitoes are huge so will wait a day or so. LindsayRichards wrote:
Most of the new natural gas engines are either 12 or 15 liter. 70% of the nations trash haulers and 50% of the nations metropolitan buses use these new engines. They are still very rare in the personal transportation. If they were more common, I'd have one with a compressor and tank to use from my piped in natural gas.
Msybe you can qualify as a trash hauler,LOL Do they even have NG in most of Fl? You would modify the dinosaur?- Oil prices shot up $5/bbl due to the trouble in Egypt and their control of the Suez canal that controls so much of the mid East oil. At least this is what the experts say. I think if the experts were so smart, they would be rich though. I don't see this Egypt thing getting settled anytime soon. We need to have all domestic oil.
