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Unfortunately, what the socialist republic of San Francisco gets as fuel prices spreads out from there to the rest of the US.
It is a mystery. The oil refineries are a stones through away from the SF Bay and the people of the SF Bay Area pay more for gas/diesel than they do in La La Land (Los Angeles) and La La Land has to pay additional fees to have their fuel trucked or shipped down to them. It should be cheaper in SF!
Anyways, that is price of diesel the rest of you have to look forward to.
I hear on the radio this morning the mom and pops gas stations are have problems because the older style fuel pumps with the mechanical wheels for price and gals pumped, the kind where you can watch the gals pumped flip, they only go to $3 in the dollar column. The most their pumps will charge is $3.999 per gal. They were saying maybe going to price-per-liter like in Europe and Asia, i.e. $1.999 per liter.
Back when fuel hit $1/gal, the U.S. went to liters for the same reason.
Thankfully, it didn't last too long before they came out with the new/altered pumps.
I had an O/B at the time, and had to convert liters to gallons in order to mix the 50:1 oil. The marina's started handing out conversion cards to help folks out.
I hear on the radio this morning the mom and pops gas stations are have problems because the older style fuel pumps with the mechanical wheels for price and gals pumped, the kind where you can watch the gals pumped flip, they only go to $3 in the dollar column. The most their pumps will charge is $3.999 per gal. They were saying maybe going to price-per-liter like in Europe and Asia, i.e. $1.999 per liter.
The other thing a lot of places did when the gas price went beyond what the pumps could register was set the pump for HALF of the actual price, then posted signs on the pump advising that the REAL price would be twice what was showing.
Diesel is averaging about $4.25 around here, but I've seen several stations with $4.50 posted. And here I bought a diesel truck figuring I'd beat high gas prices.
Ten years ago, I was paying an average of 85 cents/gal for diesel.
I've had diesel vehicles since 1992, and I have never seen 85 cents at the pumps.
But then again, I've rarely ventured outside the sunny state of CA...
Nope.
Retail.
My first diesel truck in 1998; paid .80 a gallon in southern Georgia then. A little higher farther north. But it didn't take long at all for the prices to also head north, and they ain't stopped yet.
Diesel in San Francisco Area Now $5 Gallon 
