: Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] price of diesel...interesting
theory...
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LCDR,
Data point: very good. Makes sense as I have read
transportation shifts
Christopher,
The W115 is indeed a fun car! Our W115 240D is way
faster than our W123 240D, and it drives nicer.
Bruce
--- Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know these threads get tiring, but I am still in
my
first year of dieseling and I recall from this
past
winter the
One additional factor, at least in Florida, The last time I checked
the state added about $.24/gal tax on gas and $.48/gal on diesel. It
is just another hidden tax on all the trucked in consumables you buy
at the store.
Bob Dupuy
I don't remember the exact amounts, but OK is doing the same.
On 7/8/05, Bob DuPuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One additional factor, at least in Florida, The last time I checked
the state added about $.24/gal tax on gas and $.48/gal on diesel. It
is just another hidden tax on all the trucked in
You're right - forgot about that. It's to cover the
damage done to the roads by semi's, but we get stuck
paying it too.
Christopher
--- Bob DuPuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One additional factor, at least in Florida, The last
time I checked
the state added about $.24/gal tax on gas and
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] price of diesel...interesting theory...
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LCDR,
Data point: very good. Makes sense as I have read
transportation shifts to rail in economic
downturns
Bob DuPuy wrote:
One additional factor, at least in Florida, The last time I checked
the state added about $.24/gal tax on gas and $.48/gal on diesel. It
is just another hidden tax on all the trucked in consumables you buy
at the store.
In Michigan, diesel carries a *lower* tax (by something
sombody is sure getting rich somewhere
BenzBarn wrote:
That's so much bull.
I grow corn and right now the price for a bushel is only $2.60 CDN. Do you
know how many boxes of corn flakes one bushel can make?
If there's anything is this country more out of control it's the price
difference
yes, once something goes up, its VERY hard to get the price down
because they know people will pay it, take gas for example, I doubt we
ever see it go below 2 a gallon again, much less back to normal at
around 1.29
Christopher McCann wrote:
Reminds me of a comment my dairy farmer
Of Christopher McCann
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:29 PM
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Subject: RE: [MBZ] price of diesel...interesting theory...
Royce,
Your first point about the refining process new info
for me, I assumed a fixed percentage of gas, kero,
sludge, whatever came out of every batch. Good
That's so much bull.
I grow corn and right now the price for a bushel is only $2.60 CDN. Do you
know how many boxes of corn flakes one bushel can make?
If there's anything is this country more out of control it's the price
difference paid to producers compared to what consumers pay. There's
Reminds me of a comment my dairy farmer father-in-law
made once. When the price he's paid for milk goes up,
it goes up in the store. WHen the price he is paid
goes down, even substantially over long periods, the
price in the store remains the same.
Christopher
--- BenzBarn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] price of diesel...interesting theory...
Reminds me of a comment my dairy farmer father-in-law
made once. When the price he's paid for milk goes up,
it goes up in the store. WHen the price he is paid
goes down, even substantially over long periods, the
price in the store remains the same
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