Replying to a message of TOM WALKER to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>> I'm old enough to remember gasoline for $0.25/gallon and at the same
 BA>> time diesel was $0.09/gallon.  For many years diesel was much less
 BA>> expensive than gasoline.  Note now that the demand for diesel is
 BA>> way, way up - due I think in the most part to the proliferation of
 BA>> OTR rigs; there have always been semis on the road, just not in the
 BA>> numbers that have been there for probably the past decade.  And the
 BA>> number of rigs, and consequently the dema for diesel, is increasing
 BA>> - even ignoring all the other users of diesel, whi are also
 BA>> increasing.

 TW> Gasloine here just reached $3.52 per gallon with diesel at corner gas
 TW> stations at $3.89!!! 

A couple of days ago in Red Oak (12 miles east) unleaded was $3.20, E10 was
$3.10, E85 was $2.65 and diesel was $3.57.  The same day E10 in Malvern (12
miles west) was $2.97.  E85 is up about a dollar in less than six months.

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