wh2o

Curious to know where people prefer to buy their diesel fuel and why? BP, Texaco, Shell, etc.

I have not found the best place to find it yet, so I was looking for some suggestions. Thanks in advance.

jdcaples

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I recently became a card holder for the Commercial Fueling Network (www.cfnnet.com).
CFN members sell fuel. CFN card holders - as I - buy fuel.

There is no monthly minimum and no requirement that a card holder be a business. I fuel my personal vehicle with fuel from CFN member Olson Energy in Seattle (www.olsonenergy.com).

I also add a few quarts of B99 from Laurelhurst Oil (www.laurelhurstoil.com) for the lubricity it provides (in the hopes that my injector pump and injectors will last longer). The mixture is less than B5.

I have ordered a 2007 Sprinter to replace the vehicle I currently drive. I’ll probably continue this fueling practice with the Sprinter after it arrives.

CFN is price-competitive – cheaper by a few cents - but price was not my overriding concern.

Every 18 months or so, my water-in-fuel light has gone off after filling up.

Once I get water in my fuel, I do not return to that station. I provide feedback to whomever is there at the time, but I don’t aggressively pursue the owner to explain what happened and how detrimental water in diesel is to fuel systems. I just don’t go back any time soon. Occasionally, I have gone back a year or two later and several times, it has happened again.

I didn’t start out looking for CFN. I noticed that Olson Energy installs fuel filter/water separators from Parker/Racor on their pumps. Someone scribbles the date on each filter so I can reasonably assume they're changed after some defined duty cycle.

CFN members like Olson Energy provide businesses with fleet fueling.

CFN provides some kind of billing infrastructure benefit to CFN members, but I forget the details.

I became a CFN card holder through Olson Energy entirely because of the filters I saw from the road as I passed by. They sell retail, but the pumps don't have connectivity to visa, mastercard etc, so my debit card won't work there. I don't care. I'm there for the filters.

The filters grab particles 25 microns and larger in size and any water. I get great comfort when I fuel up reflecting upon this.

CFN doesn’t require filters on member pumps, but CFN does help assure that fleet and owner/operators will be using their pumps. Thus, the fuel will be more fresh – by virtue of higher daily volume - than perhaps the local BP, Texaco or Shell station.

My CFN card works at any CFN facility, too.

That’s where I fuel up. That’s why.

stevet

I use Texaco/ Chevron only because my credit card gives me $0.10 off of every gallon, at least until October. After that, I will be shopping for another promotion.
Steve