Whoa. That's gotta be a signage malfunction. We're around 3.90 a gallon in NW Montana right now. Still pretty spendy.
Typo for sure. I think we are around $3.88 around here. I miss my diesel truck but not the price of fuel for it. Cheaper to process yet big money to purchase. Back in 2002 when I was buying it, it was less than gasoline.
That all pretty much changed with EPA mandates on pulling out the sulfer. Course now ya got to go buy lubrication additives and with the news units that DEF stuff also. Diesel fuel has been hanging around the $4 mark here with gas about $0.50 cheaper for 87 octane of the ethanol laced stuff. Problems with the Ethanol mix ratio have been creeping up seems that the supply companies are not being to careful how much they add. Been reports of up to 28% by volume. Note that the refineries are not the ones doing the mix more a regional distributor situation. At any rate it is burning way to hot in small engines 4 and 2 stroke with the 2 strokes taking the brunt of it.
Diesel is right around $4.15 here and with the loss of sulfur I started adding 2 cycle to it to save the VP44 pump on the Cummins. Did bump my mileage up about 1 to 1.5 mpg though.
Aftermarket or OEM lift pump? Fuel pressure gauge? Pressure to the VP44 should never get below 14psi even at WOT. Pump is cooled by extra fuel and anything below 14psi won't get by the bypass or relief valve and circulate back to the tank. Most VP 44 failures are the electronics overheating and burning up according to those that re-manufacture them.
I think it's the other way around.. The speculators have been in the distillate market for a long time controlling diesel and jet fuel prices through the much smaller home heating oil trading market. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB110971828745967570
Obviously it was a problem they were having, but you would think they would need to fix it pretty quickly. It couldn't have been good for business..... and unleaded was also $8.88, but on their smaller sign.
