No diesel means supply chain issues for almost everything, including food.
Diesel seems to be subsidizing gas. Yesterday gas went down 20cents but diesel was up. And diesel never went down like gas did.
I am not worried about anything this government is doing any more. This is all insane and no one cares enough to gather in crowds to demand something be done. If others, don’t care, I am not going to be manipulated into caring. Stuff it.
Diesel is running $5/gal locally and had gone up about a dollar a gallon in the past 10 days.
Why wouldn’t truckers just raise their price?
I just mailed a VERY small parcel to my kids in CA via UPS (<2 lbs) and it cost almost $16 for ground service. Hell yeah prices are going up! Even a few months ago that little thing wouldn’t have been more than $10-11. Thanks, Joe!
On my way back to Florida from Maryland on Monday, I talked to a trucker at a travel plaza (formerly known as a truck stop) in Virginia. He laid the problem out more succinctly than most people could.
One problem, among others, is that the refining process produces about 1 gallon of diesel for every 2 gallons of gasoline, and that relatively rare diesel is used in both trucks and trains. So as diesel prices rise, the cost of just about everything else rises as well.
The only things using gasoline are automobiles and light trucks (pickups), as well as small engines, such as lawnmowers. Everything else that moves uses diesel. so we’re screwed, and so are the truckers. The guy I talked to has a $13,000/month expense to keep his truck moving. Prior to President Butt-Head, I’m guessing it was maybe half that or a little more.
Is this where I say duh,,
$97 to fill up our Sprinter van.
Yes, no, sort of, maybe.
The USA is a big exporter of crude oil and refined petroleum products.
In 2021, we exported 8.54 million b/d (barrels per day) of petroleum. Same year, we exported 2.96 million b/d of crude oil.
As of March of 2022, we have been exporting 11.04 million b/d of diesel.
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Rail (diesel?) gets about 10-20% of the stuff moved across the country.
Trucking (18 wheelers, tractor trailers, etc.) - give us at least 60% of our goods and services.
The military uses diesel leaving in their motorcycles this is just more psych the gasoline can be turned off a lot easier than diesel the diisel is a point of contention regarding social control
Is diesel fuel cheaper to make than gasoline?
Is Diesel Fuel Cheaper To Make Than Gasoline? It’s easier to refine diesel fuel from crude oil because it’s less volatile than gasoline. Diesel is cheaper than gasoline in a lot of countries. Why is diesel fuel more expensive than gasoline? Diesel fuel production and distribution costs were affected by the transition to cleaner diesel fuels.
Is Diesel Fuel Cheaper To Make Than Gasoline? - LegalProX
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YAY Biden. An exciting transformation just yesterday for me. I had to fill up. $6.79 a gallon. What an opportunity.
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