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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
We have 10 cents that's still on from 1994 when we had a particularly snowy winter. They added a "temporary" tax to pay for the extra snow plowing costs. They must use a version of English with which I am unfamiliar to define that as temporary
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3.8l/gallon, 1 EUR = 1.18 Euro (tanking again I see) . so roughly $4.84/gallon for diesel, $5.24/gallon for super. I might cringe when I drive the Jag.
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$ 3.19 Folsom, CA
$ 2.79 Carson City, NV
Oil @ $58.48
Given the current state of affairs, I don't see significant dips in gas prices on the horizon.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=25018
Just +/- one CENT in fuel prices is app $ 1.4 B ! So “one’s insignificant +/- 1% oil prices “ can be “bullwhipped” to/ be more like $4.5 B .
So for example, a $700 (/$3.09 gal. * 36 mpg) savings (as projected in the link) would let me go approximately 8,155 miles, just on the savings or vice versa. For (one car) us, that’s approximately one half year of commuting.
The per gal $ price of motor fuel has been kept artificially high by virtue of the fact that 95 to 98% of the passenger vehicle fleet are rug/pug (12-15% pug). This is by no means an apology for the 9.3 cents on every $ Exxon Mobil makes per year.
CA, as of November 1, 2017 levied a $.12 rug/pug per gal tax INCREASE. There might be some naïveté, if one thinks this (demo) tax increase is not being watched across the country & probably NOT for a $.12 decrease.
This guy is seriously funny ?
My mistake, profits (pretax) were app 4 cents in 2016. The first references used were unclear.
And this is assuming gas price track oil prices. As we all know, the changes can be delayed or nonexistent.
Fintail will need some PUG this weekend, I think we're around $3.27 here, but 15 cent weekend cash discount is nice, and just beats the credit card reward.
In this area, most stations do not do/nor advertise cash discounts. Indeed, why do 5%(16.4 cents) C/C gas cash back, when a 4.6% (15 cents) cash upfront discount will do?
I only get 4% on my CC, so if the cash savings is more, done deal. I also almost always refuel on weekends, and the station is near me, so it works. Prices need to rise a bit more for the CC savings to be the most beneficial.
The funny thing is it seems to be (some to ALL) a matter of “cents”.?! (
The Exxon Mobil (downward, thx texases ) trend line was from 9 cents profit on the $, to 4 cents on the $ in 2016. ! XOM is considered one of the most well run companies, & especially in its industry. But on a practical point, it’s nothing that less than 500 shares of XOM yielding 3.74 % can’t take care of (in this area, Chevron, CHV seems to be one dominant player, cheaper is better for higher real yield, but that was a long time ago))
Indeed, governments @ any to ALL levels make MORE off oil than dare we say...oil companies! One needs just to look at Fed/state/local motor fuels taxation publications to graphically see. In some respects, it’s the best of times its the worst of times.
TMI:
1. This station is app 50 miles down the road of major refinery complexes.
2. Oil is provided by YUGE oil ship tankers & other intermodal pathways
3. Finish products can be piped to places like San Francisco International Airport, Moffet Naval Air Station, smaller bug smasher airports, Mineta, San Jose International Airport & area fuel terminals
4. The station is serviced by the area’s major fuel terminal, less than 2 miles away
5. This station is near a major international airport of 3
6. The brand is known to almost always charge a premium
The Chevron premium is understandable (I've heard from multiple MB techs that Techron is worth it).
This particular Chevron station is easily in the (50 mile radius) area with @ least 100+stations. I’m sure a few tourists might accidentally stumble onto this one. Prices are probably cheaper because it is near the Costco gasoline station.
Pricing is literally all over the map. I’m thinking that pricing would depend upon the demographic scattergrams of whom & where they cater.
So for example the (my) 2 closest Chevrons have the following pricing ULSD $3.59, PUG $3.59, RUG $3.39.
Further TMI: The two Chevron stations are @ the crisscrosses of 5 major commuting highways. Again, the major fuel terminal for all brands is quite literally down the street, three blocks on one, 1.5 miles from the other. It carries E 85, MGUG, another brands B100 (biodiesel). Both have full detailing operations. Coffee/food service revenues probably rivals two hopping Starbucks.
I personally only try to go between the (non crowded) hours of 10 PM and 7 AM. I do like their diesel products, not that I can really tell a difference. I do like the pug product in the Z06, Again, not that I can really tell a difference
On another note related to fuel on a tangent, I am reading magazines I brought back from Germany. One has an article about a guy who put 700000km on a 2.0 diesel VW Anorak - in 3 years. Average consumption, 8L/100km. That's still a lot of purchased fuel.
I’m also guessing that your cited 700,000 km/app 435,000 miles (compact truck @ 29.4 mpg) are relatively trouble free? Gas rug/pug (compact truck) competitors, like Toyota Tacoma post 18 mpg.(= 14,796 gal vs 24,167 gal) @ current pricing, he’s tucked $28,112.USD in the kitty. If he’s done it for a business mileage in the US @ 53.5 cents per mile.... Yippee!
I don't recall any failures with the Anorak - of course the driver being German, it was no doubt obsessively maintained. Most interesting bit to me is that the truck is an automatic. I think he hauls cars for a living - in Europe, it's common to see a light duty truck or even a normal car like a Golf towing another car. Another victory for diesel torque
Local Chevron this morning - RUG 3.04, mid grade 3.17, PUG 3.27, Diesel 3.09 - this is before the 15 cent discount. Fintail drank less than 4 gallons, so all is well. Bluetec will get a drink next weekend.
I’m not sure what is the correlation between “obsessive” scheduled maintenance vs UN scheduled maintenance. For many years of my life, I have always been on the obsessive (almost religious) side of scheduled maintenance. So for example, on a periodic basis, for 15 years, I would literally removed 4 forged wheels from a Z06 to wash brake dust from the rears & insides of the rims. Funny TMI story here.
I do know however in the diesel versus rug/pug issues/scenarios, gasoline & E10 to E85 products are way more wasteful than diesel will ever be.
I do have to say that i’ve been very impressed with the newer seven (ZF), eight speed (Aisin, Toyota subsidiary) automatic’s, mated to MB twin turbo 2.1 L, VW 3.0 L TDI’s. despite mpg penalties. I’ve read starting in 2016, Mercedes-Benz has some models equipped with nine speed A/T’s.
I reach in behind the spokes and clean my wheels, but have never removed them, you beat me there
Yes, MB has 9 speed models, here by 2017 at the latest - the new style E has it. Europe got it first. Not sure how these are geared, but I imagine a diesel E would be cranking about 1200 rpm at 60 mph in 9th gear (and easily beating 50 mpg). Gas station visits would be few and far between.
I’m sure German business use has something similar, but under the US IRS tax code; business use here can be 53.5 cents per mile X 145,000 miles per yr.= $77,575.
If ones charging the right $$’s per mile fees, one can do nicely, while doing what one wants.
This is not the diesel thread.
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$3.09 ULSD
$3.05 PUG (10- 15% of the passenger vehicle fleet require this fuel)
$2.85 RUG
Folsom, CA.
I’m guessing that applications like “Gas Buddy” are having huge revolutionary effects. So for example, with the 585 miles diesel range, I can literally fuel anywhere with any number of goals. The VW Touareg TDI, which was sold back to VW, had a range of 924 miles.
So how about those Cowboys?
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