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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:37:29 -0500, wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:12:53 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:
The challenge for boaters who don't care and say, "We can afford to
pay for fuel, regardless of the cost", will be the disappearing
infrastructure.
I suspect this will result in even higher prices for fuel "on the
water" if they can't sustain the volume necessary to absorb the fixed
costs of maintaing fueling facillities. More people will be sneaking
jerry cans into the marina too.
That's been happening for the past couple of years. Some of the
marinas around here don't store anymore because of ethanol, then
distributors of gasoline started requiring "on-demand" deliveries at
quantities beyond the capacity of the marinas to hold. If you only
have a 5,000 gallon tank and the distributor will only deliver a
minimum of 10,000 gallons, you have a problem.
Coordinated deliveries are a solution, but that can be difficult to
achieve.
Thus, the price goes up. The last boat test I did last Fall, gas was
at $4.15/gal when we filled up - I haven't checked what it will be
now.
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