Diesel fuel prices

Started by walkstall, December 20, 2014, 01:39:47 PM

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walkstall

Diesel has dropped in price by 75¢ in my area from the first of the year.  It has dropped 25¢ just in this month. 
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Dr. Meh

Quote from: walkstall on December 20, 2014, 01:39:47 PM
Diesel has dropped in price by 75¢ in my area from the first of the year.  It has dropped 25¢ just in this month.
Neat.

Solar

Quote from: walkstall on December 20, 2014, 01:39:47 PM
Diesel has dropped in price by 75¢ in my area from the first of the year.  It has dropped 25¢ just in this month.
I haven't bought fuel in several months, but something tells me Ca is still sticking it to us.
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Dr. Meh

Quote from: Solar on December 22, 2014, 05:22:11 AM
I haven't bought fuel in several months, but something tells me Ca is still sticking it to us.

I just bought diesel for $2.65 here in southern CA. Still high but cheaper than it was.

TboneAgain

Seems ever so odd to me, with gas down around $2/gallon and diesel dropping dramatically and the price of a barrel of oil less than half what it was just a couple months ago...... that the price of K-1 kerosene hasn't dropped one single penny at any vendor around here. It's still $4+/gallon.

Anyone else seeing this?
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walkstall

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 22, 2014, 08:31:29 AM
I just bought diesel for $2.65 here in southern CA. Still high but cheaper than it was.

You call that high.   This is the first we have been under 3.50$ in years.   Last year it was as high as 5.00$ a gal.  Some places over in Seattle was 5.50$ per gal. last year. 
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walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 22, 2014, 09:44:27 AM
Seems ever so odd to me, with gas down around $2/gallon and diesel dropping dramatically and the price of a barrel of oil less than half what it was just a couple months ago...... that the price of K-1 kerosene hasn't dropped one single penny at any vendor around here. It's still $4+/gallon.

Anyone else seeing this?

I have not used Kerosene in over 40 years other then in Kerosene lamps.  I have 6 very old lamps for when the power would go out when we lived on the West side of the state.   There call antique now  there so old, but there in good working order.    :lol:
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TboneAgain

Quote from: walkstall on December 22, 2014, 10:35:35 AM
I have not used Kerosene in over 40 years other then in Kerosene lamps.  I have 6 very old lamps for when the power would go out when we lived on the West side of the state.   There call antique now  there so old, but there in good working order.    :lol:

I have a couple kerosene heaters that I use in emergencies, especially when the power goes off. In combination with a wall-mounted propane heater (no power needed for that), I can keep the place cozy indefinitely -- as long as I make the trek to the kerosene store every few days.

Part of my house is under major renovation and can't really be heated right now. (That will change quickly, but one thing at a time!) The best way I know of to take off the chill in those rooms is a small kerosene-fueled torpedo heater.

I guess it's fair to say that I'll be buying some kerosene pretty regularly for a while.

But I just don't understand the pricing. Kerosene is distilled from petroleum, just like gasoline, just like diesel fuel. In fact, there's really not much difference between kerosene and diesel fuel, in terms of flash point and thermal content. My torpedo heater, for example, will happily burn either K-1 or #2 diesel, and I can't detect a difference in operation or output between the fuels.

Yet even with the dramatic fall in gas prices -- down to around $2 here today -- and with diesel now falling like a rock too, kerosene around here is still selling for exactly -- not 'about' or 'nearly', but exactly, to the penny -- the same price as last winter. Makes me wonder if I'm in the wrong business.....
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Solar

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 22, 2014, 09:44:27 AM
Seems ever so odd to me, with gas down around $2/gallon and diesel dropping dramatically and the price of a barrel of oil less than half what it was just a couple months ago...... that the price of K-1 kerosene hasn't dropped one single penny at any vendor around here. It's still $4+/gallon.

Anyone else seeing this?
I know what you're saying. I remember watching the price climb daily, till it hit close to $5 per gal. so I literally threw away my kerosene heater because I had read that Ca was writing law that would lock the price high.'
I don't know if they did, but I watched the price for awhile after that and it never varied 10 cents either direction for at least two years.

I did however, by one of those jet burners running diesel at 120000 BTU, I'd light it outside, bring it in for 3 minutes, drag it out and shut it down because it stunk lighting it and killing it, but boy, did it crank out the heat.
That finally failed, so I tried a propane weed burner, that kicked ass, only problem was it was too good.

Ya know those vinyl mini-blinds? :glare:
They melt rather quickly. :blush: But I still use it when it gets below 0 and the wood stove is out. I can heat the entire house in less than 10 minutes, and of course, all the fans on in the house to circulate the heat as well as the whole house fan.
Toy hates it, but she loves the instant heat. :laugh:
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TboneAgain

Here's an illustration of what I'm talking about. It's hard to get official figures from the government because they're typically months behind. But these folks show that the spot price for kerosene-type jet fuel has fallen nearly 60 cents/gallon just since August.

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=jet-fuel
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sensualblighter

Quote from: walkstall on December 20, 2014, 01:39:47 PM
Diesel has dropped in price by 75¢ in my area from the first of the year.  It has dropped 25¢ just in this month.

Really? That will be so nice.. :p

walkstall

Quote from: sensualblighter on December 23, 2014, 12:19:11 AM
Really? That will be so nice.. :p

I can remember when I got it for 25¢ a gal.  When there were no gas war going on. 
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Solar

Quote from: walkstall on December 23, 2014, 04:28:47 AM
I can remember when I got it for 25¢ a gal.  When there were no gas war going on.
And that was just back in the late 60s.
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Dr. Meh

Just an FYI, I heard from a family member that there is going to be something like a $0.60 federal tax jump on fuel starting January 1st. He may be mistaken but that's the rumor.

Solar

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 23, 2014, 08:19:31 AM
Just an FYI, I heard from a family member that there is going to be something like a $0.60 federal tax jump on fuel starting January 1st. He may be mistaken but that's the rumor.
Did he mistake Ca for the Fed? I think Ca has a planned, and publicly unapproved tax increase on fuel soon..
I hadn't heard about a Federal one.
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