Sound Off on Current Diesel Price

A few stations in DC are under $4, Minasota and Nanny Bourghs and Shell on North Dakota Ave NE.

This month $5.85-$5.77 under $6.. Last year this month $4.79-$5.09 under $5?

For anyone living around the Fox Lake, IL area, over the weekend, I saw the BP station along Hwy 12 had diesel for $3.79 and gas for $3.99. The diesel is is a bio-blend, though. I'm pretty sure it's probably B11. Just in case anyone was wondering.

$4.499 in Blaine, WA on Saturday afternoon.

Diesel is about $1.29/L (~$4.9/US Gal) at north end of Toronto
RUG is about $1.33/L (~$5.05/US Gal) but didn't pay attention to the price at the station I filled up diesel tonight.

Diesel's still $3.959-4.099 'round these parts, but gas is falling pretty steadily and most stations are now $3.579-3.739; the gap that almost wasn't is now wider again.

In Tulsa, lowest reg gas I have seen is $3.29 and diesel is $3.79-$3.99. Supposebly one place has it for $3.74 per gasbuddy app.

Wish diesel would take a dive right with gas prices. But still cheaper to fill up once a week with diesel then to fill up twice a week with my previous gas car.

$3.99 in Baltimore, $4.09 in Northern VA for 47 Cetane.

TDI_Timmi said:

$3.99 in Baltimore, $4.09 in Northern VA for 47 Cetane.

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Beats that 40 Cetane we get here, I used to be able to get 47 cetane in Mclean at a BP that shut down and they were cheaper. I got 42 cetane this week at shell in Pasadena for $3.899, SMO owned Shell are 42, I know Severna Park, the 2 on JUmpers Hole (rt.2 and Mt road), Severn Qaurtefield and I beleve but not sure Aviation BLVD she is SMO owned/lease. SP shel was $3.999, was 4.099 a few days ago, Royal Farms SP was $3.959, so prices are dropping, but for how long.

Popped over to Mobile, Alabama today and found diesel at the GASCO on Airport at Azalea was just $3.819, so I topped up. 14-20¢ less than my neighborhood; 49.4 mpg.

Exxon, just one big oil company, made nearly a trillion dollars in profit in 2011. Now lets hear it from the professional liars that somehow, no, that no so, it's OPEC or some lie or another.

ssamalin said:

Exxon, just one big oil company, made nearly a trillion dollars in profit in 2011. Now lets hear it from the professional liars that somehow, no, that no so, it's OPEC or some lie or another.

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Oh FFS, if you owned stock in Exxon wouldnt you be happy? How many corprations try to NOT make a profit? The only one that still succeeds when operating in the red is Govt!

Go back out on the picket line!

Back on topic. Frustratingly enough, diesel here is still at $4.35, where in other areas of the state it is below $4.00~!

I don't think monopoly and gouging should be allowed. Their profit and executive pay should be taxed. But you can have fun paying 5 a gallon.

ssamalin said:

I don't think monopoly and gouging should be allowed. Their profit and executive pay should be taxed. But you can have fun paying 5 a gallon.

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Their profits and executive pay are taxed, probably more than once!

Why demonize a sucessful compny that turns profit, provides employment, and makes a product we need.

ssamalin said:

I don't think monopoly and gouging should be allowed. Their profit and executive pay should be taxed. But you can have fun paying 5 a gallon.

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Two questions:

1. What business are you in, as profit must not be desireable.

2. In an effort to keep on topic, how much are you paying for diesel?

What makes you think their profits and CEO pay is exempt from taxation?

ssamalin said:

I don't think monopoly and gouging should be allowed. Their profit and executive pay should be taxed. But you can have fun paying 5 a gallon.

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They pay $8 or $9 in Europe, I am still waiting to hear from those that blame the "greedy" oil companies to blame the govenments there that put all that tax on the fuel. By the way, I payed $3.849 today, a nickel less than last week. Somebody better email the "greedy" oil companies and CEOs and tell them they are slacking and losing control

So one company makes a trillion dollars in profit in one year gouging everyone else and ruining the economy and you think they pay enough taxes? They spend hundreds of millions paying liars to lie about say climate change and are destroying the earth. They pollute and dump the clean up costs on society and bribe our government to let them. But you just love those angels right?

ssamalin said:

I don't think monopoly and gouging should be allowed. Their profit and executive pay should be taxed. But you can have fun paying 5 a gallon.

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One: Exxon-Mobil is a very big company, but has only a tiny percentage of the world's oil business. 3% or something like that.

So... not exactly a monopolist.

Two: "Gouging" is a word which has no economic meaning. It is a purely political term.

ssamalin said:

Exxon, just one big oil company, made nearly a trillion dollars in profit in 2011. Now lets hear it from the professional liars that somehow, no, that no so, it's OPEC or some lie or another.

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Exxon had $452.9 billion in sales last year (2011); its profit was $41.1 billion. So you're pretty close: off only by a factor of 25. And I'll provide you a source you can find comfort in - NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/07/152180143/

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So one company makes a trillion dollars in profit in one year gouging everyone else and ruining the economy and you think they pay enough taxes? They spend hundreds of millions paying liars to lie about say climate change and are destroying the earth. They pollute and dump the clean up costs on society and bribe our government to let them. But you just love those angels right?

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Unless you drive the Nissan Leaf or a bicycle, you need these companies that find oil half a mile below the surface, extract it out, deliver it to your pump so YOU can pollute the Earth on your way to the mall, restaurant, or work...without these companies the world, as we know it, would stop functioning.

How about all the professional athletes and the owners of their teams that make tons of money? You don't have a problem with their business model. How is it fair for those individuals to make all that money? After all, this world would do just fine without pro sports and their exorbitant compensation...Paying $100-$2000 for a ticket on top of a $10 beer and $10 sandwich is gouging in my opinion. But again, I do not hear people complaining about well performing teams...They win their games and bring lots of cash home. Why would an oil company be any different?

Finally, I assume you probably own an Ipod, Iphone, or Ipad...they are all made by a company that makes more money than Exxon. How come there is no public outcry over Apple's success? Should they be taxed to the point where they would give up inventing new products, as God forbid, it has become a sin to turn profit nowadays

Their profits are up because we're being gouged is the point. take the top 5 oil companies then, shell, exxon, bp, chevron and conoco for the last seven years and it's a trillion in profit. Same difference.

ssamalin said:

Their profits are up because we're being gouged is the point. take the top 5 oil companies then, shell, exxon, bp, chevron and conoco for the last seven years and it's a trillion in profit. Same difference.

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You make it sound like profits are a bad thing.

I worked the numbers a year ago, when you were babbling about how much Exxon was earning. After I pointed out that no single company is big enough to affect the price of crude oil, you argued that refining was where Exxon-Mobil was "gouging" the customers. Then I pointed out that XOM's profits were about 7 cents per gallon, and you decided to change the subject.

Now you're back, making the same bogus claims, unable to support anything you say, ignoring facts available to everyone, etc.

ssamalin said:

So one company makes a trillion dollars in profit in one year gouging everyone else and ruining the economy and you think they pay enough taxes? They spend hundreds of millions paying liars to lie about say climate change and are destroying the earth. They pollute and dump the clean up costs on society and bribe our government to let them. But you just love those angels right?

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And the truth comes out...

Oh yeah, you never answered the question on what business you are in that doesnt need to make a profit to survive...Govt?

Sooo, price of D2 has dropped $.10 to $3.89 or about 2%. The price of oil has dropped more than 10% in the past week or so which in a perfect world would equate to about a $.40 drop in the price of D2. I wonder if we will see it before the next weather/geo-political/refinery maintenance/whatever comes along.

Croberts said:

Sooo, price of D2 has dropped $.10 to $3.89 or about 2%. The price of oil has dropped more than 10% in the past week or so which in a perfect world would equate to about a $.40 drop in the price of D2. I wonder if we will see it before the next weather/geo-political/refinery maintenance/whatever comes along.

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You've been around long enough to know that fuel prices always rise faster than they fall.

Also, crude hasn't fallen quite as far as you think... only about 7%. RBOB gasoline futures are down about 15 cents, heating oil futures down about 20 cents.

ssamalin said:

They spend hundreds of millions paying liars to lie about say climate change and are destroying the earth.

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So I guess they paid the people at East Anglia University too? (Climategate) Back to topic, I saw price drop more, I saw alot of $3.8X9s in A.A. County today

In metro Denver tonight I paid $3.699 for RUG, D2 was as low as $3.729 in the area.

Grand Rapids, MI....
filled up RUG @ 3.68
same station @ 4.05 D2
E85 @3.39

Croberts said:

Sooo, price of D2 has dropped $.10 to $3.89 or about 2%. The price of oil has dropped more than 10% in the past week or so which in a perfect world would equate to about a $.40 drop in the price of D2. I wonder if we will see it before the next weather/geo-political/refinery maintenance/whatever comes along.

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Your perfect world must be perfect indeed...that a 10% drop in "oil", as you call it, somehow mandates that that whole passel of taxes-per-gallon must also drop by 10%.

The point I'm trying to make is that the portion of pump price that derives from the raw material is quite low. I believe it is between 10 and 15% of the total, but I've not the facts presently at hand.