Cheap gas prices are now in the rear view mirror!?

[SidecarFlip]

We have hydrants at each watering station so getting it there isn't an issue, keeping it unfrozen is. The tank heaters keep it liquid but the wind blowing across the top freezes the top and the cattle are too damn dumb to push a little bit.... We run a 1500 watt heater in each tank, total of 6 tanks or 40 bucks a month times 6 just for tank heat.

I'll be glad when April comes.

Gas is 2.05 a gallon here btw.

 

[MuchoBueno]

You know...gas is creeping you know, I mean, you know its going up. You know soon gas will be you know, more expensive unlike my pallet stove you know.

 

[bogieb]

You know...gas is creeping you know, I mean, you know its going up. You know soon gas will be you know, more expensive unlike my pallet stove you know.

Like, um, like, ya know.

 

[Bioburner]

Just got back from a fire meeting and the gas station just put up new higher #s. 2.16. That's 35 cents since Friday

 

[bbfarm]

Can you cover half the stock tank with plywood? That helped keep ours warm when we had them. We used C clamps to hold it in place.

The automatic waters use about $6 electric each to heat a month. We got the Nelson waterers. Easy to work on

 

[UpStateNY]

NH heating fuel suppliers are absolute CROOKS..... Heating oil still @ 2.69/gal, LP @ $2.99-3.19/gal. .....

My son lives in Exeter, NH and his neighborhood was able to negotiate a seasonal contract rate of $2.19/LP Gal through the neighborhood facebook page. Isn't social media awesome.

 

[billb3]

gas prices have pretty much traditionally risen after the first of the year and gone back down after Summer vacations.

conspiracy theories twice a year. In the Spring as they rise, and the Fall as they fall back down.
Baseball starts up soon . I fully expect at least one or two media frenzies to sell ads.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

NH heating fuel suppliers are absolute CROOKS..... Heating oil still @ 2.69/gal, LP @ $2.99-3.19/gal. Both should have been slightly under $2.00/gal after this long of crude oil cost plummeting over the past 6 months.....

Most delivery suppliers right now are paying 89-99 CENTS/gallon for oil/LP....... The profit gouging is ridiculous.

MA resident pay far less....... This is just one of the ways NH as a "tax free" state, make up for bragging about lower costs. (UN-true.)

$2.16 For heating oil around here now.

 

[grathan]

I started looking at heating oil last week( the stuff currently in the tank was back in the 1-2$ days ). Best price I could find was $2.85 so I figured the crude price drop hasn't affected heating oil yet and figured I would wait. 2 days later the price is up to 2.90 wtf. Does NY tax heating oil or something or are all the local sellers in cohoots?

 

[NHcpa]

Just paid $2.37 for oil.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

I started looking at heating oil last week( the stuff currently in the tank was back in the 1-2$ days ). Best price I could find was $2.85 so I figured the crude price drop hasn't affected heating oil yet and figured I would wait. 2 days later the price is up to 2.90 wtf. Does NY tax heating oil or something or are all the local sellers in cohoots?

Heating oil should be about $2 a gallon or less as there is no road tax on it. Any more and they are profiteering. How can the sell gasoline for less than $2 a gallon which includes $50 c gallon Fed & State road tax and heating oil with Zero road tax is $2.50 +

 

[NHcpa]

There is a tax on home heating oil - Oil Pollution & Disposal Fund, usually less than a couple cents. it's made available to home owners and others should you have an oil spill - home heating tank bursts in your basement for example. your insurance co will go after this fund first. Big oil also is aware of this fund and the cheap ba@stards will also apply for these funds for contaminated soils at gas stations.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Just got back from a fire meeting and the gas station just put up new higher #s. 2.16. That's 35 cents since Friday

Time for a motorcycle.

 

[Bioburner]

Time for a motorcycle.

Last season the temps didn't get comfortable till mid June and even the 4th was only 82. Going to get quote on some Body work and paint on the K1200GT to fix some trailering issue but it don't really get much better mpg than the Chevy

 

[SidecarFlip]

You need to downsize in displacement. My 650 gets 70 mpg. I don't believe your Chevy comes close to that.............

 

[BrotherBart]

Gas prices inch up every year about this time. Refineries start shutting down units for spring unit maintenance or total turnarounds and all of them are already making the shift over to summer blend mandated by the air regs.

Price ain't going back through the roof. There sure isn't gonna be any hurricanes pop up in the Gulf now and I would be hard pressed to imagine more unrest in the middle east oil patch unless Pakistan nuked Saudi Arabia.

Fifty buck crude is still half of what it was a short time ago.

 

[Bioburner]

You need to downsize in displacement. My 650 gets 70 mpg. I don't believe your Chevy comes close to that.............[/

Gas prices inch up every year about this time. Refineries start shutting down units for spring unit maintenance or total turnarounds and all of them are already making the shift over to summer blend mandated by the air regs.

Price ain't going back through the roof. There sure isn't gonna be any hurricanes pop up in the Gulf now and I would be hard pressed to imagine more unrest in the middle east oil patch unless Pakistan nuked Saudi Arabia.

Fifty buck crude is still half of what it was a short time ago.

I would agree but sadly I remember 9/11 and prices going up 40 cents a day. Hopefully they can keep the shooting and burning BS over there.

 

[Bioburner]

You need to downsize in displacement. My 650 gets 70 mpg. I don't believe your Chevy comes close to that.............

If I want to go slow I jump on the Yamaha Majesty but the Bemmer is way faster and can put on some very expensive luggage.

 

[SidecarFlip]

I have the same options as you but different makes. The Kawasaki 650 for economy or the Triumph 2300 R3 for 165 horses shitte and get....

Me thinks I could suck the paint off that Beemer with the Rocket 3. Not that I want to go fast. One, I'm too old and two, speeding tickets are expensive.

Getting to be that time of year again. I start them up in the shop every week just because. I have 3 btw. Another one with a sidecar too.

 

[Bioburner]

The brother to my k series, same age broke the record on the flats in 08 for the 1200cc unmodified at over 180 and turned around and broke the record with two up. Cops herd the kids at the school at two thirty

 

[SidecarFlip]

The R3 holds the land speed record in it's class as well. Not with my skinny arse on it though. Mine is full dress with windshield, lowers, bars, bags and floorboards and it will do 150 plus. I know, I did it one time for grins. Just once. I have little need for speed. I like smelling the roses, not the tarmack..

I'd ride a mo-ped if it was freeway legal.

 

[BrotherBart]

I would agree but sadly I remember 9/11 and prices going up 40 cents a day.

And the spike lasted a little over a week. By Christmas 2001 gas was cheaper than it had been in two years.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Well BP in Oregon, Ohio is on strike by the USWA. Saw it on Toledo 11 news/

I take solace in the fact that if prices climb, the union strikers will pay the price too.

You gotta play to pay...

 

[BrotherBart]

The Tesoro refinery in California is the only one of the 11 that isn't ticking along like normal. It was already shut down for a maintenance turnaround. These things are all hands on deck and all of the supervisors and managers along with others came up through working in the refineries and can keep'em cranking just fine. They have many times.

Jumped on company planes and headed for Illinois or Texas myself for strikes a few times.

 

[SidecarFlip]

The Tesoro refinery in California is the only one of the 11 that isn't ticking along like normal. It was already shut down for a maintenance turnaround. These things are all hands on deck and all of the supervisors and managers along with others came up through working in the refineries and can keep'em cranking just fine. They have many times.

Jumped on company planes and headed for Illinois or Texas myself for strikes a few times.

I take it that a refinery is pretty automated far as catalytic cracking is concerned or is it? Having been by the refinery in Oregon, Ohio many times (but never inside the fence), I have never seen too many workers in there.....