salmontroll
2009-03-15 22:22:09
Here in Washington, It was encouraging to see the price at the pump(gas stations) for diesel is now $2.01/gal, even with one of the highest fuel taxs in the country, 60.1 cent's a gallon. What's the price now in SE?
JYDPDX
2009-03-16 17:54:12
No reply. huh. Maybe this post got missed. I'm very curious to know myself.
Having fished out of Pelican and Elfin Cove last year I saw fuel prices in excess of $6/gal (Cove cheaper). Not looking forward to paying triple what the stuff is worth currently. :(
salmontroll
2009-03-16 21:09:29
Yeah, the price of fuel really cut into my profit margin last year. Now the price here in Ballard is get this..... if over 700 gallons.. $1.44/ gal : ) at Ballard Oil.
yak2you2
2009-03-16 22:41:57
Tell you what, if somebody had a good tender they could make a darn good living just hauling cheap fuel up here. Sounds like prices have dropped some in the bigger towns, but were still getting raped out here in the bush. As of today Delta Western is still charging 5.00 a gallon for gas, 5.65 for diesel here in Yakutat.
Chalk it up to experience I guess. We are currently experiencing what the pains of child birth feels like, only in reverse.
That's about as eloquently as I dare describe what's going on up here, which is probably why your not getting many responses. Everybody's to disgusted to speak right now.
salmontroll
2009-03-17 11:42:59
wow, sorry, that's sick. Who owns these places? do they have a conscience at all?
HapCabbage
2009-03-24 15:11:46
It does sound like we're getting gouged when we're buying fuel this year in outlying towns, but in some places the fuel dealers are still trying to sell fuel that they paid for at last summer's prices. In Elfin Cove, the community-owned fuel dock filled up their fuel tanks last September, at last September's prices. When they can draw that fuel down, they'll have room to buy new fuel at this spring's prices. But things are pretty slow in the cove over the winter: population in the low double-digits, very little fishing, zero charters... even the local power-plant uses less fuel in the winter. So the fuel dock still has last year's high-dollar fuel in their tank-farm.
If they sell all that 5-dollar fuel at 2-dollar prices, we won't have a fuel dock for long. But in the meantime, yeah... ouch!
Making matters worse, I hear that some of the local charter operations are seeing the national economic slowdown cut into their business this year, so they won't be helping draw down that expensive fuel as much as they have in the past.
salmontroll
2009-03-24 21:54:48
That makes sense, no one likes to see their profits diminish. But someone's going to take the loss, whether it be us or the supplier. I'd say they'd better lower the price on that fuel, or they'll really be stuck with it. Passing on that price to others hurts their business' also, and commercial fisherman have their share of risk already. If they don't, they'll lose their customers and future profit.