Local spread on fuel is much tighter. Diesel is normally a significant premium. not for this past summer. Diesel is running on par with 89 octane. Normal price is at least $0.13 more than 93 octane
clay On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > So far north of gas? > > I got my aunt with this the other day, they have a diesel Passat and a gasser > Volvo. We talked it out and if you aim low on the Passat and say 40mpg and > say 30mpg on the Volvo which is probably slightly optimistic that gives the > Passat a 33% advantage right? > > If gas is $3.65 and diesel is $4 (and thats a bad spread, its not as bad > here) thats 35 cents difference or around 9%. So my contention is that you > spend an extra 9 cents to save 33. You don't have to hit me twice with a > stick... > > -Curt > > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:19:24 -0700 (PDT) > From: Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Truck for Jamie > Message-ID: > <1379456364.48504.yahoomail...@web161001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I have a 2001 F-250. ?Got it new, love it. ?Diesel was 4K$ more at the time, > and it just wasn't worth it, even though fuel was cheaper then. ?If you tow > all the time for a living, then a diesel is a good thing. ?If you're buying a > utility truck to go to the lake, pick up lawn stuff, and in general haul > stuff around but not for a living, then gas is great. ?Now that the cost of > diesel is so far north of gas, I am convinced my lil ole F-250 gasser was a > good choice. > > Now I got 66K miles on it. ?It will still be here when the crematorium is > messing with me (c: > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
