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Title: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: belfert on June 24, 2015, 07:30:30 PM
A number of stations are now selling gas and diesel for the same price here in the Minneapolis area.  One station actually has diesel 10 cents less than gas.  Going price for gas and diesel right now is $2.69.

I thought I would never again in my lifetime see diesel at the same price as gasoline.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: eb99603 on June 24, 2015, 07:47:41 PM
Sweet! I'm sitting at a little under half a tank, and will need to fill up before I depart in a month. A few cents a gallon add up quickly in these beasts.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: muldoonman on June 25, 2015, 04:21:15 AM
That cheaper diesel sure makes it easier to take off when your bumping though 4 to 5 miles per gallon in your wagon.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: luvrbus on June 25, 2015, 05:28:11 AM
The price of corn and soy are down along with oil enjoy while you can  ;D
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: lostagain on June 25, 2015, 05:55:09 AM
+- 10 cents a liter less than gas up here. That's 40 cents a gallon.

JC
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: Ed Hackenbruch on June 25, 2015, 06:58:34 AM
 $3.14 a gallon at Napavine Wa. right now, looks like about the best price in the area. Need to top off the tank today before we do much running around the state.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: TheHollands! on June 25, 2015, 08:13:47 AM
We do a decent amount of miles each year and this past 6 months has been real nice with the lower diesel price. We are heading into Eastern Canada in a few weeks, with good weather and lower diesel we figured we ought to go someplace we've never been. Craig
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: bevans6 on June 25, 2015, 12:47:29 PM
$1.09 a litre here in Tatamagouche (actually everywhere in Nova Scotia, the government sets the price every Thursday night and every station sells at the same price).  Which is about 40 cents a gallon less than regular gas, but on the other hand is $4.20 a US gallon.

Brian
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: bobofthenorth on June 25, 2015, 02:19:59 PM
A buck nine sounds good out here.  We're paying around a buck twenty.  The current excuse is that the northern peso is trading at such a discount to the greenback and that is pushing up the price.  Personally I think the price is what it is because us sheeple keep paying the price.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: belfert on June 25, 2015, 04:55:35 PM
It isn't like at $4.20 a gallon that people are going to stop going to work.  People pretty much have to buy some fuel to commute to work at least.

It seems since 2008 that most people have adjusted their budgets for higher priced gas so it doesn't affect most as much.  I still start cutting back on non-essential driving when gas gets above about $3.50 a gallon.  It is a 16 mile round trip to any decent stores so I try to do most of my shopping on my way home from work as I drive right by a lot of stores.
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: Jon on June 26, 2015, 04:31:38 AM
Yesterday.....Walmart in Maryville TN........gas $2.42, diesel $2.39. At the interstate however the diesel was $2.69 and gas $2.55
Title: Re: Diesel now costs the same as gas here!
Post by: luvrbus on June 26, 2015, 04:42:28 AM
With today's price of a barrel of oil according to prices years back we should be paying $1.50-$1.80 per gal,inflation is a nasty word same as greed.I filled mine yesterday still cost me almost 400 bucks but it sure beats 600 bucks