My electric company is pretty good. They recently had a 2.18% price increase, but they tell me on each bill that I'm averaging using anywhere from 13 to 20 percent less electricity than the same period last year and that's with two plug-in cars. Right now, they owe me money.Meanwhile, the electric company here is requesting their almost monthly price hikes. Oh, they have also pled guilty in the 85+ Camp Fire deaths since it was their poorly maintained equipment that started the fire.
Those utilities have been used as cash cows by both parties in the past, but mainly by the Democrats as they've controlled the legislature for all but a couple of years in the past 50 years. The people who run California are also the ones who own tens of billions of dollars worth of bonds issued by those utilities.Yep! The Public Utilities Commission, who approved that, is one of the most corrupt agencies in the state. It is basically the lapdog of PG&E, SoCal Edison, and SDG&E.
Here in California Chevron is the highest with their prices consistently being 50 - 75 cents higher than all other brands.In years past I found Valero the most expensive, but for the last 2 years or so I find they are among the lowest.
We're seeing RUG for $0.995-0.999/L in my area, a price we haven't see for years!
D2 is still surfing around $1.199-1.299/L.
Hmmm, with the CAD = .71USD, that is about 2.68 USD for RG, and 3.36 USD for D2 per US gallon.
That is called greed. Fuel prices are part of UPS' overhead, so if the cost goes down, then the overhead is lessened. By not eliminating the surcharge UPS is just jacking up their profits and by not doing so in the current situation, is probably in violation of the anti-price gouging laws.We renewed our UPS contract yesterday and we were bugging our rep about UPS's fuel surcharge. He reassured us that even if oil prices went to $0 the fuel surcharge would not go away.
I also wonder if we'll see a rise of common rail HPFP failures due to water contamination, if fuel is sitting unused storage tanks.I wonder if the delay in switching to summer fuel will also delay price increases that typically come with the switch.
I'm not one to defend UPS, but the complexity of what they're doing in this crisis boggles the mind.
It's gasoline that's sitting in storage tanks unsold and perhaps absorbing water. You shouldn't be putting that in your TDI anyway.I also wonder if we'll see a rise of common rail HPFP failures due to water contamination, if fuel is sitting unused storage tanks.
Even if it's a lot less expensive than Diesel?It's gasoline that's sitting in storage tanks unsold and perhaps absorbing water. You shouldn't be putting that in your TDI anyway.
So are you saying that every diesel car and pickup is still filling up at the same rate as before and there hasn't been a decrease in the auto diesel tanks rate of emptying?It's gasoline that's sitting in storage tanks unsold and perhaps absorbing water. You shouldn't be putting that in your TDI anyway.
No, but the percentage of diesel consumed by autos has to be far less than 1%. The roads are still full of semis and box trucks.So are you saying that every diesel car and pickup is still filling up at the same rate as before and there hasn't been a decrease in the auto diesel tanks rate of emptying?
$$$ way cheaper than here! $1.50 difference aboutDiesel $1.929 in Orangeburg S.C.