Poll: Price of Diesel

In Raleigh vicinity, I've seen ranges recently from $2.199 to $2.299. Flying J at Haw River reports $2.139 for today. Pilot reports NC range of $2.159 to $2.299 depending on location.

Here's gov't data on average regional prices as of Monday:

I feel better. $2.11 in Columbia MO.

$2.43.9 is about the cheapest here in SW Idaho, seen up to $2.49.9

Figures, since I bought my first diesel last May, prices have been slowly edging up ever since. Kinda like when I purchase a particular stock, the price always goes down...

DJ

QUICK Sell you diesel! The prices are high enough!

I used to tease one of my co-workers who was into day-trading that he could make more money writing a book on his strategy called "Buy High

- Sell Low".

Vista, California $2.399 per gallon

I paid $2.12.9 this morning in Gainsville, VA. (about 35 miles outside the D.C. beltway)

Man, that's a pretty varied range.

I use between 60 and 80 gallons of diesel a day to run my small grading business.

Has anyone else besides me wondered why fuel pricing hasn't been a subject of debate or addressed as a campaign issue?

I'm not arguing politics, just wondering why it's being avoided by both candidates.

I mean, they've probably spent millions trying to find out if Bush was where he was supposed to be thirty years ago during guard duty, and if Kerry deserved his medals or not, but why not address issues that are important now?

Spdloader (Ranting)

$2.299 per US Gallon here...

That is a very good question...

Maybe it's that they both know that they can't do anything to lower the prices themselves so they would rather not bring it up???

Think back. Diesel has always been less than gas as it costs less to refine. They always pump the price of gas until the consumer starts to scream. Then they start jacking up Diesel prices. The average consumer doesn't drive a diesel, so they could care less how high the price goes. The trucking firms, farmers, heavy equipment operations, etc. don't care too much either as they just pass on the extra cost to the gas using consumers. In the end it is the people who are burning gas who pay for the majority of the diesel price increase. West Palm Beach, FL $2.27/gal.

Of course, if you are willing to take the time and the risk to fuel up in Baghdad, gas is 5 cents a gallon. Diesel must be pretty close to the same. Of course if you are the US military, you import it from Kuwait at $195/gal.

Except in the case of owner operator truckers, who haul on a contract, signed when diesel was 1.09 a gallon, or dump truck operators, hauling by the hour, and that isn't going up. It's gouging, pure and simple, in my opinion.

Spdloader

$2.09 in Raleigh, NC

In SW Michigan around $2.20-$2.30

Which station? The Shell Qual-mart (?) out by the fairgrounds used to have pretty good prices, but it's been creeping up recently. Last time I saw $2.09 was down near Clayton over the weekend.

Regards, John Kinney

Los Angeles area avg. = 2.599