Off-road diesel prices

josh m

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Anyone gotten any recently. What's that stuff cost these days?


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Usually $0.40 gal less than road diesel where I’ve been getting it, but it’s so dirty I just get road from a more popular station.
 
Probably won't be too helpful (we order 250k-300k gallons in Greenville & 100k-150k in western NC annually), but at work we're paying an average of $2.22/gal in the Greenville, NC area with the latest (delivered 7/5/18) at $2.26/gal & an average of $2.48/gal (treated) in the western half of NC with the latest (delivered on 6/25/18) at @ $3.16/gal, but 6/13/18 was $2.69/gal.

EDIT: Personally, I basically copy what @Blkvoodoo said and top off the tractor with on-road from whatever gas station I'm filling the F250 up at.
 
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There's only 1 place near me that sells it, and if my memory is correct, it's usually about $0.20-0.25 cheaper than their taxed diesel, but they are usually about $0.10 high on their taxed diesel, so it's not worth the difference. I'm also close enough to SC that I can just run down there and get some on road diesel and it's cheaper than NC off road diesel. Go figure...
 
Blkvoodoo said:
Usually $0.40 gal less than road diesel where I’ve been getting it, but it’s so dirty I just get road from a more popular station.
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Isn't it literally just the same thing, but w/ red dye so that you know you haven't paid road taxes?
 
RatLabGuy said:
Isn't it literally just the same thing, but w/ red dye so that you know you haven't paid road taxes?
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As far as I understand it, that is correct. There are 3 different colors of diesel: clear, red & blue. Clear is for on-highway use, red is for off-highway use & blue is for gov't vehicle use.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Isn't it literally just the same thing, but w/ red dye so that you know you haven't paid road taxes?
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Other than the fact that non-road is usually stored off in the old above ground rusty steel tank, up until maybe just recently it was also only "low sulfur" vs ultra low sulfur like we've had at the pump for a decade. Rolls better coal with all that sulfur.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Isn't it literally just the same thing, but w/ red dye so that you know you haven't paid road taxes?
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braxton357 said:
Other than the fact that non-road is usually stored off in the old above ground rusty steel tank, up until maybe just recently it was also only "low sulfur" vs ultra low sulfur like we've had at the pump for a decade. Rolls better coal with all that sulfur.
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yes, dyed for tax purposes, and stored in some of the nastiest tanks in many cases.

had a brand new fuel jug, first fill had more crud in it than i’ve seen in 4000 hour fuel filters.
 
The station near me that sells it is only ten cents cheaper for off road. Kinda sucks...
 
Bought some recently and it was a full 70 cents cheaper than on-road diesel and only about 10 minutes out of my way. But......likely a low volume seller so the quality is TBD. I plan to filter it before using it in a tractor.
 
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