Maine diesel $$$$$$

[bwanted]

All campers coming north from New Hampshire fuel up before crossing into southern Maine. Diesel is $4.20 a gal. Once past Portland it drops to $3.78. State says they can charge anything they want.So the fuel up mid coast. Gouging?

[hammer21661]

jetboater454 wrote:
There is a minor fuel shortage that started in Michigan. One supplier had to get fuel from another,then the speculators got wind of it,panicked as usual.Plus some refineries are down for maintenance.

And the cost of road fuel is cheap,pull into a marina and say fill it up.:E

Water way tax,insurance ,an attendant at the pump,and fewer sales coupled with a bad economy. Don't think the marina is making alot of money off of that fuel. Our costs only go up while we haven't been able to raise rates for 7 years. Fuel prices change but that is it.

[fla-gypsy]

There is still hope based on some of these responses today. I don't like paying more than anyone else but it is still a partially free market, at least for the time being.

[wanderingbob]

Often overlooked when pricing fuel is the location of the fuel station . A stop on the interstate highway may have cost the owners ten or even twenty times as much money as a location several miles away . Here on I-10 in Florida a 13 acre parcel for a truck stop just sold for 36 million . That cost will have to be paid back on every product sold . The newspaper said it will be a 40 million investment before they are done . just to service that debt will run 2.5 million per year . Fuel many times is cheaper away from

[goducks10]

Like anything else, it's only worth what people are willing to pay for it.

[paulcardoza]

Isn't that what any company will do, regardless of product?

camperpaul wrote:
The oil companies will charge anything we will pay.

[JamesBr]

While I do see shifts, sometimes as much as 30c a gallon from one state to the next, what I cannot concieve is how locally by me there is a select few stations that always charge 20-30c a gallon more then the surrounding stations. I cannot concieve how they can remain open when everyone elses pumps have lines, and they sit empty and idle.

[jetboater454]

There is a minor fuel shortage that started in Michigan. One supplier had to get fuel from another,then the speculators got wind of it,panicked as usual.Plus some refineries are down for maintenance.

And the cost of road fuel is cheap,pull into a marina and say fill it up.:E