Diesel Question for truck campers
I believe a diesel engine is the best for hauling a truck camper. With the price of diesel going up more each week is it still worth it? Just looking for opinions. Today in Canada a gallon ...
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elkhornsun,
You can not use Gasbuddy for the gospel that there is no diesel in the town. It relies on people reporting the prices their not that there is fuel there. If there is only one station in town and you have to go some distance for another station what good is it to report it, you are just going to buy it. I looked across the back route from Flagstaff to Taos and the longest distance I showed using Gasbuddy was 172 miles from Tuba City, AZ to Shiprock NM of 172 miles. This was taking Hwy 89 to 160 to 84 into Taos. A total distance of 452 miles.
I looked at Google Earth and it showed a station in Jenner, CA on Hwy 1 with diesel but guess what Gasbuddy didn't show any diesel and in fact it didn't show any gas either. :E
On the hwy route 1 Gasbuddy isn't showing any gas stations for regular either so I guess there isn't any gas on that road or diesel. No it just means nobody is reporting it.
Now if you take a drive and report to Gasbuddy all the stations on the route that has gas and diesel and then we well have good updated Gasbuddy for all of us to follow along behind you.
Use something that has some concrete facts whether there is fuel there or not. I know there are stations where I live that have diesel but Gasbuddy doesn't show them having it either.
Also when I went to Alaska last year along the Alaska highway there were some places that had diesel but they did have any regular gas. I was sweating a little coming into Watson Lake on fumes in my gas truck (not really I was carrying 7 gallons of fuel along with me in case of emergency). :)
Sorry everybody for the long post.
You can not use Gasbuddy for the gospel that there is no diesel in the town. It relies on people reporting the prices their not that there is fuel there. If there is only one station in town and you have to go some distance for another station what good is it to report it, you are just going to buy it. I looked across the back route from Flagstaff to Taos and the longest distance I showed using Gasbuddy was 172 miles from Tuba City, AZ to Shiprock NM of 172 miles. This was taking Hwy 89 to 160 to 84 into Taos. A total distance of 452 miles.
I looked at Google Earth and it showed a station in Jenner, CA on Hwy 1 with diesel but guess what Gasbuddy didn't show any diesel and in fact it didn't show any gas either. :E
On the hwy route 1 Gasbuddy isn't showing any gas stations for regular either so I guess there isn't any gas on that road or diesel. No it just means nobody is reporting it.
Now if you take a drive and report to Gasbuddy all the stations on the route that has gas and diesel and then we well have good updated Gasbuddy for all of us to follow along behind you.
Use something that has some concrete facts whether there is fuel there or not. I know there are stations where I live that have diesel but Gasbuddy doesn't show them having it either.
Also when I went to Alaska last year along the Alaska highway there were some places that had diesel but they did have any regular gas. I was sweating a little coming into Watson Lake on fumes in my gas truck (not really I was carrying 7 gallons of fuel along with me in case of emergency). :)
Sorry everybody for the long post.
