SV: gas $ (was Re: SV: Re[2]: [AT] NC Trailer regulations

[Mark Greer]

If you really want to save money try NOT using road diesel in that
excavator. There is no need to pay the road tax on fuel for an excavator
unless it has license plates of its own and you drive it like a car.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: SV: gas $ (was Re: SV: Re[2]: [AT] NC Trailer regulations


> > If anyone on the list buys fuel oil for heating I'd be curious to know
the
> > latest price you paid.  Also, if you know the price of Diesel in your'
area
> > I'd be interested in that as well.  I am asking as my daughter was
> > complaining to me this evening about the local price of Diesel and she
asked
> > me if people had to pay the same price for home heating oil.  Since I
don't
> > know I thought I'd ask -
> > Thanks -
> > Dudley
> > Snohomish, Washington
>
>
> Dudley, what we do every year is buy a contract in late summer for
> the coming heating season from our fuel oil supplier. This year we bought
> $2000 in fuel at $1.599 to be delivered as needed during the coming
season.
> How this works is, our supplier in turn buys a contract from his supplier
> and guarantees to us that we will not have to pay more than this amount.
> Also, if the price drops, we get the lower price, whatever that might be.
I
> understand the price locally is already up over $2 a gallon for those who
did
> not buy contracts.
>
> I used to have a thousand gallon tank that I tried to have near empty
> by summer. I looked for sale prices and usually managed to fill the tank
with
> very cheap heating fuel by the first of August.
>
> Diesel fuel, FWIW, is going for between $2.349 and $2.549 locally.
> I happen to pass the station that sells the cheapest on my way to our new
> property and saved good money by buying diesel fuel there to put in the
big
> Komatsu excavator and my dump truck during the past two weeks. It sure
hurts
> to see the pump stop at $75 when filling the tank on the pickup.
>
> Cecil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
>
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