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Monday, March 03, 2008

Fuel Delivered

I guess I had been hearing for a while that as the oil refineries started switching over to summer blends the price of fuel would go up even higher, so this morning I called and asked them to fill up my gas tank and diesel fuel tank. They agreed, but didn't know how soon it would be done. That's fine, I told them and hung up the phone. Stacey, Linda and I went to lunch in Columbia in the Mustang and as we were driving into the driveway at home, I noticed the fuel truck was done delivering our fuel. I backed down the driveway and told him to hang on, I would get the check book and pay the bill. I parked the Mustang and grabbed the check book and went down to pay. The driver handed me a bill and it was four hundred and some odd dollars and I thought, that's not that bad. I started to write the check, but the driver said, "That's not the total." and handed me another bill. OH MY GOSH, did I pay! The total was $1,007.47 for filling both tanks and neither tank was all the way empty. One hundred and fifty gallons of gas @ $3.09 per gallon and one hundred and seventy nine gallons of diesel fuel @ $3.04 a gallon. The driver said, he didn't know what people were going to do with prices like they were, he was apologizing. I laughed and said that I would try to make this last longer this time. He laughed and said he guessed everyone would. We talked a little while about the gas prices and he seemed more upset than me. I guess he's been hearing it from everyone he delivered to about the price.

Posted by at 4:28 PM
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