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Thank God we finally getting a little relief at the pumps nowadays. Had a few stations around here yesterday posting $2.99/gal. It's a shame when when I feel a little relieved only paying ~$85 to filler' up. Hows everybody else making out?
knowing that Holiday season is around the corner I'm sure we'll see a huge increase by the end of the month.

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You should see if there are any gas banks in your area. Prepay and lock in fuel prices.

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Surely some kind of liberal ploy especially after a storm. When we get hit by a hurricane gas prices soar. Makes me wonder. Vote Mitt!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Try paying 3.59/gal here in Az !!!!

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$2.89 a gallon in Elsberry, MO yesterday at the Quick Stop. It's dropped 50 cents in one month in most MO locations.

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prices over here work out at over $10 per gallon so count yourselves lucky.

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Looks like Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina are the places to be right now if you're looking to fill up:



http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

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I'm sure they will be going back up again now that the socialist has won the election. As well as unemployment, which magically went down drastically right before the election. Hopefully we can survive 4 more years of this ****. :violin:

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$2.79 a gallon this morning in Wildwood MO!

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8.2$ Gallon here :crying:

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This is only temporary. Now that f*ckface has been re-elected you can expect $5/gal gas to be the norm.

So nice to see someone else in PDX with some common sense!

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That map that Guru put up resembles the electorial map back on election day.
Looks to me like all the big democratic states pay the higher gas prices. Probably due to their higher state tax/gal. Complete morons... wonder when their gonna get it?

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:iagree:

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Lower oil and gas prices are signs of weak economy! :crying: This affects my traditional 401K, energy & oil stocks in my portfolio. Cheap fuel prices seem like the best idea on the outside, but once you take a good look from the inside it will make you think twice.;)

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Out visiting the son and his family in Telluride, CO and I just paid $4.09 a gallon at the Shell yesterday on hwy145. My son tells me they bumped prices everywhere around here 30 cents a gallon for the Thanksgiving influx. I like Moab, but this is also definitely Hummer country too.

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Just got back from FL. Arrived in FL at 1am, loaded up some furniture and left back to NC at 4am.

Just got back 12 hours later....

Paid 3.90'ish on average for diesel. Wouldn't have been bad but I was running around 80 mph pulling a 28' trailer.

Averaged 9-10 mpg (real mileage, not DIC)

Mark

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OC, I saw your h2 for sale. your truck is great, one of the lifted ones I've liked the most.
Good luck on your sale :)

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Thanks bud. I hate to sell it. The swap has been flawless. The guy that did the swap did an outstanding job but at the end of the day, the H2 is not conducive to towing.

It's not that it can't pull my 28 'trailer but with two razors, gas, etc, etc in it, a 2500 chassis or dually would tow better.

Mark

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Hey OC--your last couple of posts really have me scratching my head on towing with a diesel in your deuce.
I've been towing a 30ft travel trailer weighed in around 6400-6600 pounds for local camping, and definately more when we drove cross country last year.
My average fuel consumption was 8mpg real world driving 50-55mph the entire distance; any faster and all my temps started going thru the roof.
The truck itself handled the towing duties well, drivetrain--esp. cooling system, just isn't suited to max. rated towing from my experience.
You said you don't feel the deuce is suited to towing, could it just be the SUT, or what has you feeling this way? Also, not sure how your diesel fuel economy at 80mph is comparable to mine at 50-55 in a gasser?
Doesn't really sound like a benefit (at least towing wise) to be had in going diesel? I know your performance without the trailer is impressive.

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A few thoughts... my trailer is ALL aluminum. I don't know how much this one weighs since I just received it but it was a replacement for a 24' all aluminum that I ordered less than a year ago. My point is the 24' was 3K lbs. plus bathroom stuff. (I'd say 3800-4000lbs MAX) Now, I'm not a trailer expert so I don't know how much that makes a difference.

Second, I'm running 4.56 gears to offset my 40's. Again, not sure how that compares to your setup.

I do know this. Running 75-80mph in my H2 with a supercharged 6.0 pulling a trailer on the DIC only showed 6 mpg. (so I'm assuming 4-5 in real life)

I was using the "tow" tune which uses a bit more fuel but tows much better.

Last but not least, when I say it's not suited to towing, I'm talking suspension. With a lift kit and 40" tires, I had to install a set of airbags in the rear springs to keep the truck level. My "issue" when I say towing is the wheelbase. The H2 simply isn't conducive to towing as compared to an HD2500 or Suburban.

My trans temps never got over 200 and my duramax saw 210'ish a few times but it would drop down very quickly.

Hope that helped explain it a bit better.

Mark