Henry Raymond
Fairfax News => Current News & Events => Topic started by: Henry on October 07, 2008, 09:16:52 AM
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Just had our first load of fuel delivered on a pre-buy. We pre-bought at $4.59 and I asked the guy what the going rate was today and he told me it was $3.69.
They dropped off 230 gallons, so it actually cost us $207 more by doing the pre-buy. One never knows. The driver was telling me that they had customers last year that did a pre-buy and they were by the end of the year paying over $2 less per gallon than the going rate was.
We have to look at it this way, there are a lot of poor people having difficulty buying the fuel oil at $3.69, which now, at least to us, seems like a bargain. We do have to feel good about that.