Farm Diesel Prices

[ddivinia]

I have a 550 gallon tank at my place and I need to refill it. I just called around and prices ranged from $4.46 to $4.60 a gal delivered. 300 Gal Minimum.

I asked the lady at the place for $4.60 a gal. I can buy it at the local truck stop for $4.60.

What is the deal? How much tax are we supposed to be saving?

I am in the Dallas area. I was out in Olney, Texas this week and farm diesel at the local filling station was $4.20. Maybe I need a portable diesel tank...

D.

 

[WTA]

They must be adding on a big delivery charge it sounds like. My nearest farm diesel dealer is at 4.65 right now. What ticks me off is the gas station where I buy diesel for my truck is also 4.65. That farm diesel places price is if I pick it up.

It's not worth the trip there to get it. Unless you have an honest dealer and one that sells a LOT of fuel then you aren't going to save money.

 

[chh]

Up here iN Oklahoma I usually save about 20 to 25 cents a gallon delivered to my house 300 gallon min. Sometimes the prices are out of wack though. I have a 100 gallon tank on my flatbed p/u that I use to transfer fuel to my dozer's and when I don't want to run a tractor back to the house to fill it. If prices are out or I don't want to mess with them there is a station that has off road fuel and I fill it there to get by. The downside to the bed tank is that there is over $400 sitting back there that is a prime target for thieves. I keep the fill and the nozzle padlocked.

 

[Grrrr]

Wow.

Over here in the UK, it is costing us the equivelent of $6.98 for a gallon of off road tax free diesel, or $11.65 for road legal diesel.

Cost the equivelent of $460 to fill up the JD 6820 I was drivign the other day, would have cost $769 if I had filled it up at a roadside petrol station.

Last year, red off road diesel was $2.50 a gallon (equivelent again, I work in metric!)

 

[WTA]

That is a much bigger jump in fuel prices than we have had. It's killing many of us so I don't know how you are surviving. Unless you are rich and farm for fun. I doubt that is the case though.

I made some calls today and found a distributer that will provide the tank for free if I only have them service it and now we are trying to scrounge almost 5000 dollars for the first fill up. Well, 4,290 dollars for 500 gallons. I couldn't believe the price he told me.

 

[firemanpat2910]

4290 divided by 500 gallons is $ 8.58 a gallon

 

[RickB]

4290 divided by 500 gallons is $ 8.58 a gallon

Yeah, but remember, the tank is "free".

 

[LBrown59]

That is a much bigger jump in fuel prices than we have had. It's killing many of us so I don't know how you are surviving. Unless you are rich and farm for fun. I doubt that is the case though.

I made some calls today and found a distributer that will provide the tank for free if I only have them service it and now we are trying to scrounge almost 5000 dollars for the first fill up. Well,* 4,290 dollars for 500 gallons. I couldn't believe the price he told me.

ouch****

 

[LBrown59]

Yeah, but remember, the tank is "free".

I just recently got 60 gallons of red fuel delivered for $4.02 per gallon .
I'd say about half or so of the $4290 is going to cover the tank.

 

[LBrown59]

They must be adding on a big delivery charge it sounds like. My nearest farm diesel dealer is at 4.65 right now. What ticks me off is the gas station where I buy diesel for my truck is also 4.65. *That farm diesel places price is if I pick it up.

*Sounds like they're ripping folks offf here.