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Bro I hate the news
They will at truck stops. I've done it.. let me look for the picture
Thats a Love’s Truck Stop Diesel pump in that post.
I posted earlier in the thread what I been pumping in my truck.
I hate them deeply and why they all have that nasally voice?
And why is that? Does Texas have a decent public transportation? Does Arkansas have a decent public transportation system?
It’s called geography, structure/tech of the area, population, etc… some areas are spread out some are more close to together
This sounds like public policy. Is there a difference between an area in the northeastern US and south-southwestern?
Why is gas rising in the U.S. when we hardly use Russian oil?
Answer below
Answer below
I made a post yesterday showing what I fueled this past Sunday.
I hit the road yesterday to SLC, UT for delivery. I drove about 417 miles. I was just under 3/4 tank when I arrived.
I got my next load with a pickup in SLC headed to Reno, NV which was just over 500 miles.
Our SLC terminal has a fuel island, so I topped off just over 60 gallons.
I headed out this morning for delivery, after delivery tonight, I got my new fuel solution to fill up in Reno, NV at the TA.
My next load is a pickup in Reno and taking it to San Bernardino, CA. That’s about 525 miles.
So, I topped off tonight and got 84 gallons at $5.49/gal. I don’t need DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid), but they were charging $4.25/gal. My DEF tank I think holds about 25 gal. A full tank can last about a week and a half. We have DEF at our terminals where I normally get it.
This is my 2nd fill up for the week. After delivery in South Cali, they will route me out of Cali. My company doesn’t want us fueling in Cali cuz of the high price. I should be just below 1/2 tank in South Cali. They will most likely have me top off either in Arizona or Nevada depending on which way I go. That will most likely happen sometime Friday.
With what I’m spending on each fill up, I would not be surprised if I’m pumping a weeks pay for some of you cats reading this.
These semi’s is one of the reasons you paying high prices for products. Everything you buy came delivered by a truck. These companies are offsetting the cost to the consumer….which is you.
Ok, a few hours ago I made it to our Utah terminal where I got my 3rd fill up for the week.
I was at 1/4 tank when I made it to the terminal where we have a fuel island.
As you can see in the below picture, I pumped 140 gal. of diesel.
So since Sunday when I first filled up, I pumped 340 gallons of diesel.
My company buys fuel wholesale, so their cost is way lower than what’s charged at the truck stops.
I saw Utah truck stops selling diesel at $4.99/gal.
So doing the math, I pumped $699 dollars at Utah price.
My total cost for diesel fuel this week was around $1,921.00
In mileage since Sunday’s fill up. I ran just over 2000 miles.
I also filled up at my terminal DEF. I was at 1/2 tank, so i probably put in around 11 gallons. Our DEF pump doesn’t have a meter on it. DEF at truck stops are averaging around $4/gal and change.
So for you cats curious on owning a truck, do the math on how much you need to be pulling in weekly.
You also will have other costs, I have been posting in this thread information on running a truck and posted informative videos from owner operators explaining in detail the cost of owning their own rig.
You also gotta factor in if you got the house, wife and kids back home and the expense of them.
There’s plenty of money out there, to make it you gotta be motivated, have good business sense and know how to hustle and grind.
You may have heard O/O’s grossing over $250/k to $300/k a year or more, yes you can, but you need to figure out how much of that money is going back into the truck. Lots of O/O today are taking home between $50k to $80, some pulling in more.
And if you speak to any O/O, they will tell you they work 25/8/366. You ain’t making no money if that truck is sitting in your driveway.
Price Gouging.
There is no shortage of supply, if you noticed there are no lines at pumps. Some gas stations you lucky to see any cars there.
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Ok, a few hours ago I made it to our Utah terminal where I got my 3rd fill up for the week.
I was at 1/4 tank when I made it to the terminal where we have a fuel island.
As you can see in the below picture, I pumped 140 gal. of diesel.
So since Sunday when I first filled up, I pumped 340 gallons of diesel.
My company buys fuel wholesale, so their cost is way lower than what’s charged at the truck stops.
I saw Utah truck stops selling diesel at $4.99/gal.
So doing the math, I pumped $699 dollars at Utah price.
My total cost for diesel fuel this week was around $1,921.00
In mileage since Sunday’s fill up. I ran just over 2000 miles.
I also filled up at my terminal DEF. I was at 1/2 tank, so i probably put in around 11 gallons. Our DEF pump doesn’t have a meter on it. DEF at truck stops are averaging around $4/gal and change.
So for you cats curious on owning a truck, do the math on how much you need to be pulling in weekly.
You also will have other costs, I have been posting in this thread information on running a truck and posted informative videos from owner operators explaining in detail the cost of owning their own rig.
You also gotta factor in if you got the house, wife and kids back home and the expense of them.
There’s plenty of money out there, to make it you gotta be motivated, have good business sense and know how to hustle and grind.
You may have heard O/O’s grossing over $250/k to $300/k a year or more, yes you can, but you need to figure out how much of that money is going back into the truck. Lots of O/O today are taking home between $50k to $80, some pulling in more.
And if you speak to any O/O, they will tell you they work 25/8/366. You ain’t making no money if that truck is sitting in your driveway.
Thanks for the info & the numbers.
For those of you who believe Biden is the cause of the rise of gasoline prices…
Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production
The deal will reduce output by 9.7 million barrels a day. While significant, the cut falls far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.
By Clifford Krauss
Published April 12, 2020
Updated Nov. 16, 2020
www.nytimes.com
HOUSTON — Oil-producing nations on Sunday agreed to the largest production cut ever negotiated, in an unprecedented coordinated effort by Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States to stabilize oil prices and, indirectly, global financial markets.
Saudi Arabia and Russia typically take the lead in setting global production goals. But President Trump, facing a re-election campaign, a plunging economy and American oil companies struggling with collapsing prices, took the unusual step of getting involved after the two countries entered a price war a month ago. Mr. Trump had made an agreement a key priority.
It was unclear, however, whether the cuts would be enough to bolster prices. Before the coronavirus crisis, 100 million barrels of oil each day fueled global commerce, but demand is down about 35 percent. While significant, the cuts agreed to on Sunday still fall far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.
The plan by OPEC, Russia and other allied producers in a group known as OPEC Plus will slash 9.7 million barrels a day in May and June, or close to 10 percent of the world’s output.
While the planned cut is slightly smaller than a tentative pact reached last Thursday, the deal should bring some relief to struggling economies in the Middle East and Africa and global oil companies, including American firms that directly and indirectly employ 10 million workers. Analysts expect oil prices, which soared above $100 a barrel only six years ago, to remain below $40 for the foreseeable future. The American oil benchmark price was just over $23 a barrel on Sunday night.
“This is at least a temporary relief for the energy industry and for the global economy,” said Per Magnus Nysveen, head of analysis for Rystad Energy, a Norwegian consultancy. “The industry is too big to be let to fail.”
The agreement reached on Sunday was the result of more than a week of telephone conversations involving Mr. Trump; the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman; and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Trump praised the deal, saying on Twitter that it “will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States.”
Negotiations hit a snag when Mexico refused to go along with an agreement fashioned by Russia and Saudi Arabia, saying it would cut just 100,000 barrels a day and not 400,000. Saudi Arabia strongly resisted Mexico’s position, worrying that if Mexico could balk others would follow.
Mr. Trump supported President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, giving vague promises he would make up the difference, and helped coax the Saudis and Russians not to abandon the tentative agreement.
It was not immediately clear if the Trump administration made a formal commitment to cut production in the United States, but with prices plummeting, many companies in the country have already reduced output. There is no international mechanism to strictly enforce such production agreements and cheating is common.
Big oil nations that are not members of OPEC Plus, like Canada, Brazil and Norway, along with the United States, have been cutting production. The Energy Department has said that American oil production will fall by at least two million barrels a day by the end of the year. Other analysts say the eventual cut could be three million barrels a day out of the 13.3 million barrels a day produced at the beginning of the year. President Trump has expressed interest in buying oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to further reduce supplies.
The oil crisis began a month ago when Russia refused to go along with cuts promoted by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC producers. In response, Saudi Arabia said it would increase production by three million barrels a day and flood the market. Oil prices and global stock markets fell sharply on the news.
The Russian and Saudi reversal in the last few days was an acknowledgment that their gamble was causing self-inflicted economic wounds.
“There were miscalculations on both sides,” said Ben Cahill, a senior energy fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The Russians miscalculated how sharp the Saudi response would be and they might have been taken aback by how deep the price drop was.”
The change in course should give a lifeline to American companies as they invest far less in exploration and production.
“Hopefully, the American oil industry has avoided a worst-case scenario,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy and Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. “There still will be bankruptcies, but for the time being, the fears that there would be a wholesale destruction of the industry can now be put aside, because the worst of the price war has passed.”
It is possible oil prices will sink again in the coming days if traders are not satisfied with the new cuts. In fact, on Thursday, the last day that oil futures traded, the price fell sharply even though a deal was close.
“The agreement provides the expectation of stability,” Rene Ortiz, Ecuador’s energy minister and a former secretary general of OPEC, said in an interview on Sunday. “But whether the markets react accordingly is a different ballgame.”
With the pandemic crushing economies around the world, few buyers were available in recent weeks to buy the cheap Saudi crude. The kingdom stored some oil in Egypt and was forced to let unsold crude sit in tankers along its coasts.
The mounting glut became a threat to Saudi government finances. At a projected average price of $34 a barrel this year, Rystad Energy estimated the kingdom’s revenues would drop by 50 percent compared with 2019, a loss of $105 billion.
Click Above Link For Full Story
Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production
The deal will reduce output by 9.7 million barrels a day. While significant, the cut falls far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.
By Clifford Krauss
Published April 12, 2020
Updated Nov. 16, 2020
Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production (Published 2020)
The deal will reduce output by 9.7 million barrels a day. While significant, the cut falls far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.
HOUSTON — Oil-producing nations on Sunday agreed to the largest production cut ever negotiated, in an unprecedented coordinated effort by Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States to stabilize oil prices and, indirectly, global financial markets.
Saudi Arabia and Russia typically take the lead in setting global production goals. But President Trump, facing a re-election campaign, a plunging economy and American oil companies struggling with collapsing prices, took the unusual step of getting involved after the two countries entered a price war a month ago. Mr. Trump had made an agreement a key priority.
It was unclear, however, whether the cuts would be enough to bolster prices. Before the coronavirus crisis, 100 million barrels of oil each day fueled global commerce, but demand is down about 35 percent. While significant, the cuts agreed to on Sunday still fall far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.
The plan by OPEC, Russia and other allied producers in a group known as OPEC Plus will slash 9.7 million barrels a day in May and June, or close to 10 percent of the world’s output.
While the planned cut is slightly smaller than a tentative pact reached last Thursday, the deal should bring some relief to struggling economies in the Middle East and Africa and global oil companies, including American firms that directly and indirectly employ 10 million workers. Analysts expect oil prices, which soared above $100 a barrel only six years ago, to remain below $40 for the foreseeable future. The American oil benchmark price was just over $23 a barrel on Sunday night.
“This is at least a temporary relief for the energy industry and for the global economy,” said Per Magnus Nysveen, head of analysis for Rystad Energy, a Norwegian consultancy. “The industry is too big to be let to fail.”
The agreement reached on Sunday was the result of more than a week of telephone conversations involving Mr. Trump; the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman; and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Trump praised the deal, saying on Twitter that it “will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States.”
Negotiations hit a snag when Mexico refused to go along with an agreement fashioned by Russia and Saudi Arabia, saying it would cut just 100,000 barrels a day and not 400,000. Saudi Arabia strongly resisted Mexico’s position, worrying that if Mexico could balk others would follow.
Mr. Trump supported President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, giving vague promises he would make up the difference, and helped coax the Saudis and Russians not to abandon the tentative agreement.
It was not immediately clear if the Trump administration made a formal commitment to cut production in the United States, but with prices plummeting, many companies in the country have already reduced output. There is no international mechanism to strictly enforce such production agreements and cheating is common.
Big oil nations that are not members of OPEC Plus, like Canada, Brazil and Norway, along with the United States, have been cutting production. The Energy Department has said that American oil production will fall by at least two million barrels a day by the end of the year. Other analysts say the eventual cut could be three million barrels a day out of the 13.3 million barrels a day produced at the beginning of the year. President Trump has expressed interest in buying oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to further reduce supplies.
The oil crisis began a month ago when Russia refused to go along with cuts promoted by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC producers. In response, Saudi Arabia said it would increase production by three million barrels a day and flood the market. Oil prices and global stock markets fell sharply on the news.
The Russian and Saudi reversal in the last few days was an acknowledgment that their gamble was causing self-inflicted economic wounds.
“There were miscalculations on both sides,” said Ben Cahill, a senior energy fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The Russians miscalculated how sharp the Saudi response would be and they might have been taken aback by how deep the price drop was.”
The change in course should give a lifeline to American companies as they invest far less in exploration and production.
“Hopefully, the American oil industry has avoided a worst-case scenario,” said Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy and Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. “There still will be bankruptcies, but for the time being, the fears that there would be a wholesale destruction of the industry can now be put aside, because the worst of the price war has passed.”
It is possible oil prices will sink again in the coming days if traders are not satisfied with the new cuts. In fact, on Thursday, the last day that oil futures traded, the price fell sharply even though a deal was close.
“The agreement provides the expectation of stability,” Rene Ortiz, Ecuador’s energy minister and a former secretary general of OPEC, said in an interview on Sunday. “But whether the markets react accordingly is a different ballgame.”
With the pandemic crushing economies around the world, few buyers were available in recent weeks to buy the cheap Saudi crude. The kingdom stored some oil in Egypt and was forced to let unsold crude sit in tankers along its coasts.
The mounting glut became a threat to Saudi government finances. At a projected average price of $34 a barrel this year, Rystad Energy estimated the kingdom’s revenues would drop by 50 percent compared with 2019, a loss of $105 billion.
Click Above Link For Full Story
Attention whore ass clown. G’s pay to play. My shit DRINKS gas. Don’t care. Ain’t going live at some gas station with a neckerchief on to whine about gas prices. Nutrasweet ass ninja!
Social media confirms most dudes ain’t built for this.
This white boy pulled up in big ass F-250 I asked him how much to fill it up and he just shook his head while I laughed my ass off It costs $10 to crank that Mf up lol
These broke dudes with Challengers are rethinking life. my shit went from $50 to $80 to fill up. Don’t give a fuuuuuuck! Y’all pay more for a sandwich than gas.i used to drive a lifted truck with a 36 gallon tank, plus reserve. $100 a tank 5 years ago. None of this shit phases me. Shit could he $12 a gallon and I will drive my shit daily and still eat out with my lady. Shit is temporary and y’all know a drink at the club is 4 gallons of gas on a good day.
my shit went from $50 to $80 to fill up. Don’t give a fuuuuuuck! Y’all pay more for a sandwich than gas.i used to drive a lifted truck with a 36 gallon tank, plus reserve. $100 a tank 5 years ago. None of this shit phases me. Shit could he $12 a gallon and I will drive my shit daily and still eat out with my lady. Shit is temporary and y’all know a drink at the club is 4 gallons of gas on a good day.
yup $6 for a gas of that hen-dawgThese broke dudes with Challengers are rethinking life.
People won't understand when the store stops carrying their favorite items...or they have to pay double for them.
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Gas prices now highest US motorists have faced. Here is what it means
According to GasBuddy data, the U.S. national average set a new all-time record of $4.104 a gallon Monday, eclipsing 2008’s record.
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u clearly don't make it to costco much...
Costco had long lines long before the pandemic and the current rise in gasoline.
Costco was having long lines way back when gas was going for under $1.50/gal.
Gas-Saving Tips That Actually Work
When fuel prices rise, all kinds of gas-saving schemes get floated. We separate the serious from the silly for you.
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Gas-Saving Tips That Actually Work
When fuel prices soar, all kinds of gas-saving schemes get floated. We separate the serious from the silly for you.
With gas prices reaching all time highs, plenty of people are feeling pain at the pump.
Driving less, ride a bike, take public transportation – sure sure sure. Plenty of us HAVE to drive. So other than swearing a lot when filling up, what action can you take? When fuel prices spike, lots of tips and tricks to save on gas get trotted out. They’re not all worthy.
We’ve narrowed them down to seven that don’t violate the laws of physics, compromise safety, or insult your intelligence.
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Get the Junk Out of the Trunk
Car engineers spend a lot of time and engineering pounds, ounces and grams out of today’s cars. Don’t undo their efforts (and the gas savings they represent) by leaving unnecessary items in the luggage compartment, on the back seat or in the bed. Golf clubs are a common violator, but so is random dead weight like those boxes of books you keep meaning to donate. Or, dear lord, a case of individual water bottles for after-workout hydration.
Every time you accelerate, you’re using gas to get that stuff up to speed with you. And frankly, every time you brake you're turning that energy into heat. How much gas are you wasting? This depends on your car, but the EPA estimates a 1% in fuel mileage reduction per 100 pounds. On a per-gallon cost basis, that’s about $0.04, using the EPA baseline figures. Get your stuff in order and you’ll save money, too.
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Get the Rack Off the Roof
When they’re not worrying about the weight of their designs, auto engineers worry aboiut aerodynamics.
Improvements to how your car slips through the air matter most at high speeds — highway miles. The most common way drivers hurt their aerodynamics, and thus mileage, is by putting items on the roof.
Do you have activities (cycling, skiing, going down to the beach house) that mandate a lot of equipment? Consider whether you could use a hitch-mounted rack or box instead. Tucked in the slipstream of your car, these will save fuel.
If you must put items on the rooftop (perhaps you kayak), remove the rack when you can.
And, finally, if your vehicle came with a factory roof rack that you never use, see if you can remove the crossbars. You’ll save a few pounds this way, too.
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Combine Your Trips
Okay, this sounds like a nag, like being told not to use the trunk for storage. “If life weren’t so crazy, I’d be doing that already!”
We know. Still, we will repeat the reasons why planning ahead can save gas:
- If grouping trips means fewer miles driven, well, that’s obvious.
- But even if you have to go in multiple directions, all non-electric cars use more fuel when the engine is cold. So the fewer times you to bring the engine up to temperature, the better. Cold starts aren’t good for your car (or the environment, for that matter).
Don’t Let Your Car Idle
Americans continue to wildly overestimate how much fuel it takes to start an engine versus to keep it running. The reality is, once you’re stopped, your car is wasting fuel after about 7-10 seconds of idling. That’s why newer gas cars (and virtually all hybrids) have a feature that shuts the internal combustion engine off during stops when the brake is applied. The car’s still on, but the engine isn’t. Push the pedal and the engine snaps back on and off you go.
The feature annoys some people (and in truth the smoothness of the systems varies among vehicles), but the gas savings is real. Watch this video from Engineering Explained to see the science behind these claims.
If you want to maximize mileage, don’t disable the auto on-off feature. And everyone can stop leaving their car on while running back into the house, or whatever short errand you’re doing. You're not an Ice Road Trucker. And it’s a prime way to get carjacked.
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Drive Slowly. Errr, Wisely!
No list of gas-saving tips would be complete without the admonition to slow down. There’s no getting around the fact that lower speeds require less fuel, most because aerodynamic resistance increases with the square of speed.
So, that’s the lecture. But driving to save fuel doesn’t have to be a dull crawl in the slow lane. Try thinking of it this way: brakes turn your money into heat, so can you avoid using them?
This isn’t meant to encourage dangerous behavior like not stopping for stop signs or the like. Rather, tune your anticipation skills. Look down the road farther, and coast down when you know that traffic signal’s going to change to red. You might actually find it rewarding. Bonus: You’ll be a safer driver, too.
While hybrid and electric vehicles are best equipped to take advantage of this style (through regenerative braking), many conventional gas cars now engage power-sapping accessories like the alternator during coast-down to maximize fuel efficiency.
As for accelerating, if you know you’re going to be holding a higher speed for a while, like when you’re merging onto a highway, go ahead and push the gas as hard as you need. Not only is slow acceleration in this situation potentially dangerous, it doesn’t actually save fuel.
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Don’t Rely on the Tire Light
All cars built since 2007 have what’s called Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS). These do what the name says: monitor that your tires have air pressure.
The hitch is this: That light may not come on until a tire is more than 25% lower than the recommended pressure. And if you wait for that, you’re potentially endangering yourself (an underinflated tire can compromise your car’s handling or even lead to a tire blowout) and wasting money (underinflated tires reduce your gas mileage by roughly 0.2% per pound that they’re low). Doesn’t sound like much, but try this math: If your recommended inflation pressure is 40 psi, and you’re 25% low on air, that’s a 2% hit to your gas mileage. Plus, underinflated tires wear more quickly and unevenly, reducing your tire life.
There’s just no substitute for buying a decent-quality tire gauge (between $5 and $15) and using it at least once a month. Even if you can figure out how to get your vehicle’s TPMS to show each tire’s individual pressure on your information screen, we’d still backstop this with a handheld gauge.
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Embrace Fuel-Saving Apps (And Join the Club)
Finding the cheapest fuel can be sport for some. But phone apps like Gas Buddy and Gas Guru make it almost too easy to find the best gas deals. Since you can use them to screen for brands, you can also make sure you’re getting good quality fuel, which, in the long run, matters to the health of your car.
Joining a membership club like Costco or Sam’s Club could also pay off. Figuring how quickly you’ll recoup your membership cost with the per-gallon savings on their discounted fuel is pretty easy math.
Like I said, you don’t see long lines at the pump. So why are they low on those blends?
That’s part of the hustle.
They aren’t filling up the regular tanks and keeping the premium full.
All of this is price gouging.
Big Oil is robbing Americans right in their face while pointing the finger at everybody else to blame.
They all making up for lost revenue during the pandemic. Every major economic sector of this country is price gouging. These businesses gonna make that money back one way or another.