L/O Fuel Summaries

Wow I must have been smoking my crack through dirty toilet bong water again thinking it was $0.04 lol

 

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My net fuel cost is down to $.87 per gallon. 13 week mileage 7.59, last week 6.70.

 

I don't want to hijack this thread or anything or make anyone mad, but has anyone ever considered posting good places to buy fuel and others to avoid?

There are two I would rec'm, Caseys General Store diesel in MO, and Philips 66 in KS. Both were winterized and both gave me great mpg. Now tonight I fueled at a Pilot in OK, and after 100 mi my mpg's are already lowered. I really just checked out the price of fuel at Pilots, and didn't even consider trying to find a Philips 66 along the way. I really wish I had now, but its on the list for next time.

well just some thoughts to share, I hope no one really doesn't mind.

 

Exactly...I can always find a price of a major chain what i want to know is the price of the independants....and compare them to terminal fuel prices....but here is a good one to start.....quicktrip in missouri...always a good price Huck finns in Illinois and kentucky....and a place in danville Ill....colonial pantry(i think)...on I74...its a real dump...but fuel price is good

 

Hello friends,

Upon reflection, I meant to use the word, "cheap", to describe a fuels quality, not its price.

Yes your all right, alot of the indies' have fuel at or below what the national chains are charging. Its funny, but TA's can't compete so they only list the cash price, how sad.

What started me thinking was yesterday I was at an 8.1 with a real real light load on flat mostly roads. This was at a speed of 61 mph, I had a four wheeler drafting off me, ( which I really can't stand), so I slowed my speed down to 57 ish. My mpg when up to an 8.7 after several hundred miles. Then I fueled at a peelot and only after 100 miles, its gone down 8.6. So I'll see today what today brings, maybe nothing I hope, we'll see.

 

I just hauled a 45,000 beer load from Van Nuys, CA to Phoenix. When I checked my mileage at the rest area on I-10 (just west of Banning) I was showing 6.7, better than I expected at that point. Next check (Chiriaco Summit/top of the climb) was 7.2, Blythe 8.0 and Phoenix 7.8. Since weather was not a factor I wasn't suprised at the slight drop from Blythe to Phoenix as you climb as bit leaving Blythe and my speed went up from 60 mph in CA to 65 in AZ.