Fuel Prices In CA

PP · December 03, 2014, 09:41:00 AM

Quote from: John316 on December 02, 2014, 06:40:30 PM
I will bite. What's keeping you up in the cold? You in Canada somewhere, and did they take your passport?

We planned on being out of here end of October but the govt talked me into staying until the end of Nov. Kept telling the wife it wouldn't be a problem and then the day we were set to hit the road it snowed. Okay, I can wait a few day while the missus chews on me about not listening to her. But then the snow turned to freezing rain, which was supposed to clear off and just stay cold. Now it's frozen mist and I'm watching pickups slide down the road. Are you familiar with the Columbia River Gorge? I've become intimate with it and not in a good way.... LOL We figured it would be a better route than trying the passes. I put new rubber on it last year, I wonder if they can be studded? Well the winds are down to 30 MPH today and the temp is supposed to hit 30 too, so things might be looking up by this weekend.
Will

belfert · December 03, 2014, 09:57:13 AM

Quote from: Oonrahnjay on December 02, 2014, 03:41:02 AM
$3.20 here in southern NC (although it varies a lot). Nearby in SC (where they don't try to tax people to death), the best price I've seen is $3.09. They're just hosing you, Brian.

Every state in the region is paying about what we are paying in Minnesota. Probably the old winter blend/heating oil excuse though almost nobody heats with oil here.

luvrbus · December 03, 2014, 10:18:01 AM

I tell you what is funny the guy died last but Earl Holding owned Sinclair Oil and a few miles down the road he has Little America Truck stop the highest priced fuel in Wy $3.79 today so much for high transportation cost being the reason

DMoedave · December 04, 2014, 04:53:31 AM

well I have been working on Long Island all summer and now fall. Diesel is down from 4.40 gal to 4.00 you can find it cheaper if you look will see how it is in Jersey and Pa this weekend. its been at 4.00 off the island as an avg. figuring it should be at 3.75 and be very happy if its lower. I think .50 state tax in NY.

Dinah is snowed in as well in Pa. the snow followed by thaw and freezing rain is a killer you cant get rid of it if its not in the sun.

uncle ned · December 04, 2014, 06:56:20 AM

Dave

Are you going to Arcadia this year. If so mabe we can meet and caravan down.

Wont go down the inter-state.

uncle ned

Oonrahnjay · December 04, 2014, 07:27:11 AM

Quote from: DMoedave on December 04, 2014, 04:53:31 AMwell I have been working on Long Island all summer and now fall. Diesel is down from 4.40 gal to 4.00 you can find it cheaper if you look will see how it is in Jersey and Pa this weekend. its been at 4.00 off the island as an avg. figuring it should be at 3.75 and be very happy if its lower. I think .50 state tax in NY.

Dinah is snowed in as well in Pa. the snow followed by thaw and freezing rain is a killer you cant get rid of it if its not in the sun.

Dave, I have friends who live in the Hudson Valley, northwestern Mass., and near Quebec City. I drive up several times a year and I'm always amazed to go along I-84. On my last trip (late Sept.), diesel in PA was posted @ 3.89, four miles away in the corner of New Jersey (right at the Port Jervis exit), it was $3.44, and not 25 miles away in NY, it was $4.29. There is something fishy about prices in the North - more than just the incredible tax load.

belfert · December 04, 2014, 11:59:41 AM

Diesel prices have always been sky high in New York any time I have checked the prices there. It has been a decade since I drove a diesel vehicle into New York state, but I avoided buying any fuel there.

DMoedave · December 04, 2014, 07:24:01 PM

Hey Ned, I would love to do that but it wont be this year. I just got back from delivering a boat down to St Maarten and took longer than we thought. I have to make up the time best I can and make the moolah. Bruce, that's the sweet spot for diesel on 84 lol. The only issue is its at the bottom of that big hill going east and you cant get a running start out of Jervis. That seems really low for diesel, Pa and NJ have been catching up to NY. I always take 84 out of Scranton on the run back to the Island to avoid the highway robbery at the GW bridge.

ros · December 04, 2014, 08:09:00 PM

Hi, Dave,

I wonder what you thought of St Maarten.

Since boat delivery and captaining a boat is such a close-knit community, I wonder if you know my good friend, Kevin Schmid?

He is a wonderful guy, a lot younger than me, though.

Ros

Quote from: DMoedave on December 04, 2014, 07:24:01 PM
Hey Ned, I would love to do that but it wont be this year. I just got back from delivering a boat down to St Maarten and took longer than we thought. I have to make up the time best I can and make the moolah. Bruce, that's the sweet spot for diesel on 84 lol. The only issue is its at the bottom of that big hill going east and you cant get a running start out of Jervis. That seems really low for diesel, Pa and NJ have been catching up to NY. I always take 84 out of Scranton on the run back to the Island to avoid the highway robbery at the GW bridge.

TomC · December 04, 2014, 10:02:29 PM

Paid in L.A. today $3.259/gallon for Diesel. At the highest, I once paid $5.259/gallon. I'd like to see another $1.00/gallon drop in price. Good Luck, TomC

belfert · December 05, 2014, 12:06:46 PM

Quote from: TomC on December 04, 2014, 10:02:29 PM
Paid in L.A. today $3.259/gallon for Diesel. At the highest, I once paid $5.259/gallon. I'd like to see another $1.00/gallon drop in price. Good Luck, TomC

$3.25 in California of all places? We really are getting raked over the coals here in Minnesota with diesel prices. Typically, western Nevada and California have had the highest diesel prices on my entire yearly trip although Minnesota seems to be catching up pretty quickly.

harleyman_1000 · December 05, 2014, 01:44:08 PM

Diesel here in my city is 2.63 a gallon

Oonrahnjay · December 05, 2014, 04:41:59 PM

Quote from: harleyman_1000 on December 05, 2014, 01:44:08 PMDiesel here in my city is 2.63 a gallon

Saw $2.89 at an off brand station just in SC from the NC/SC border on I-85 today. Prices seemed to be falling all day along that route.

luvrbus · December 05, 2014, 06:15:42 PM

I would like to see it lower but if drops to low they are going to tax it big time then when someone in the mid east breaks a leg here we go at 5 or 6 bucks a gal

I personally think they are driving the oil prices down to stop all the drilling in the US it seems to be working the rig count this month is only +3 and Canada is a -16 for this month

Oonrahnjay · December 05, 2014, 09:08:34 PM

Quote from: luvrbus on December 05, 2014, 06:15:42 PM... I personally think they are driving the oil prices down to stop all the drilling in the US

I've thought that for a while, too. The main driver in this Saudi Arabia - we passed them in production earlier in the year and they didn't like it A BIT!