Originally posted by MarkJerling Yes, daylight robbery. Makes running a V8 expensive. That should be a firing squad offence. Is Diesel more expensive than petrol by you?
When I bought the Dodge in 2001 diesel was running 10 cents or so lower than regular. Shortly after it began to climb, and was soon as much as, or higher than premium.
Lately it is running about the same as regular.
I filled the Subaru with regular yesterday for $2.69 a gallon. It had been just under two bucks a gallon last spring.
The current pricing is a relief. A few years ago it was running $4 to $5 a gallon.
Still nothing like you have to pay to be sure, but high nonetheless. A large portion of the fuel costs are taxes too, but I never bother myself with the details.
The stress would kill me.
A side note.
When I first started driving gas was 30 cents or so a gallon. Then the gas wars came and it got down to 19 cents a gallon. My dad had a half dozen 50 gallon barrels and we would load them in the pickup and go to town and fill them. Back home we rolled them down a ramp into the barn and waited for the prices to climb.
A hedge on inflation I suppose.