Just saw the price of Diesel #2 at the local Shell for $2.23. Looks like things are moving upward. The San Jose BD pump is looking more affordable by the minute.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, murdoch wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:23:21 -0000, you wrote: > > >I will be keeping a record of my milage on B100. My baseline for > >Dinodiesel #2 is 23.3 mpg average over 17 records, highest mpg= 26.6. > > Awesome, thx. I will look forward to this, and then we should be able to > do a $ per mile cost calculation and get a sense of how much further we > have to go to reach those who care about that, and nothing else. > > There was a newspaper article today about the national price of gas. The > price per barrel has come down a few dollars, but the price at the pump > is > lingering (I don't think it's that surprising that there's a little lag). > Of course, there's all sorts of moral outrage about gouging and so forth. > > But another point mentioned was the number of smaller trucker (owning > something like 9 trucks or less) who have been put out of business and > continue to be, when these price spikes occurr. The larger truckers also > feel it, but do have better mechanisms in place apparently to pass on > some > of the costs. > > If B100 could ever be reduced enough in price to really be competitive on > that basis, then it would be interesting to see if it would help these > folks who are being so affected by petro-diesel costs. > > AT the pump down the street here, #2 is about $1.95, so it sounds like > you're at about an 80 cent premium, if your #2 is around the same. > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
