Forgot about the pickups - aren't some Hummers diesel too? Gas station about 5 blocks from work just added a diesel tank too.
Christopher --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And with 4.2 bazillion new "deeesel" Peeck'em ups > out there demand is higher. > Almost every station is now selling diesel. Compare > to 1990 before the big > diesel truck explosion and one had to look around to > find a station with diesel > pumps. In 1992 I had the only diesel in the parking > lot. Today I have one of 2 > gasoline vehicles in the lot. In the NW the diesel > pickup is everywhere. > > How did the new "low sulphur" rules affect diesel > production? Probably > increased price of additives and reduced the amount > of gallons per barrel, I'm > guessing. > > My local refiner has a 20 inch pipeline to the local > air force base. They > sell a lot of fuel to the government. I doubt there > is a surplus building up in > their tanks. > > Not that I think for a minute that everyone from the > oil field thru refiner, > thru trucker/distributor, and retailer hasn't added > a little to their margin. > And why not, they just point to the other guy and > blame him. > > Just a few reasons for the prices being what they > are. > > Ken > > In a message dated 7/8/2005 4:39:42 PM Pacific > Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Re: price of diesel...interesting > theory... > To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Well my ill informed understanding is that a given > barrel of crude > will only produce so much of each desired fraction, > unless the refiner > rally pushes hard and does some complex more > expensive cracking of the > hydrocarbons. That being said we dieselers are > competing with the home > heating oil users and the jet fuel users. In europe > over half of the > new cars sold are diesels. With only cars using the > gasoline portion > of each barrel it is realatively cheaper. Those darn > europeans are > using up our share of the cheap diesel and sending > their left over > stinky gas here on the cheap. > > Bob DuPuy > Down to 1 SDL 1 D and two Mogs > > _______________________________________ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For new parts see www.buymbparts.com > For repairs see www.oldworldauto.com > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > Christopher McCann, Raytown, Missouri -1985 300SD, 207K miles, "Wulf" http://don.homelinux.net/mbz/Chris -1976 240D, ManyK miles, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen = Alternative Fuel Test Vehicle) -1998 Toyota Sienna CE, 99K miles, "The Van" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
