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Old 11-26-2018, 03:34 PM
 
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That Saint John petrol gets put on a boat to Portland, then trucked up here. Sure would save a ton of money to fill those tankers up in Saint John then just drive them across the border. It's a shorter distance to drive from Saint John to Houlton than to go from Portland to Houlton.
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I have a friend who drives a tanker for Irving and he crosses in Madawaska several runs a week. The gas going south might get shipped, but I know for a fact several tanker loads a week gets trucked from St John.
You see the Natural Gas trucks crossing in Houlton several times a day.
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Old 11-26-2018, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Maine's garden spot
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They barge fuel into Searsport and Bucksport.
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Old 11-27-2018, 05:41 PM
 
Location: New Britain, CT
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Citgo on New Britain Road (CT Route 71) in Berlin, CT is at $2.559 a gallon. As for Portland? I'd gladly note it...IF I can ever get up there again. The closest station to the Transportation Center on Thompson's Point Road is the Mobil station on Congress Street, if front of the Clarion hotel.

I think our fuel gets shipped from New Haven. Sure see a lot of tanks when going by Long Wharf on I-95.
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Old 11-27-2018, 06:13 PM
 
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2.35 gallon in Litchfield

earlier the same day it was 2.59 in danvers mass.
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Old 11-27-2018, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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I have a friend who drives a tanker for Irving and he crosses in Madawaska several runs a week. The gas going south might get shipped, but I know for a fact several tanker loads a week gets trucked from St John.
You see the Natural Gas trucks crossing in Houlton several times a day.
That's weird.....if they are coming from Saint John. It would be one more reason that gas prices in the County should be the same as central Maine (no need for ocean shipping to Portland and then up).
I don't think they cross in Houlton.
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Old 11-28-2018, 03:36 AM
 
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Natural Gas crosses in Houlton. Tankers hauling fuel oil, kero, and gas cross at Madawaska. You can take that to the bank. There was an Irving tanker that crashed on Rt 6 a few years back, so they must cross in Calais on occasion as well.

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Old 11-28-2018, 05:22 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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I used to call on the mill in Madawaska back in the 1990s. If there was soft snow and a west wind I crossed to Canada and went up the Trans Canada to Madawaska. It was a visibility thing. I did it sometimes in the summer due to traffic on Route 1 in Maine. I have not been to Canada in about 20 years now because I don't want to repack my vehicle just to cross.
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Old 11-28-2018, 07:24 AM
 
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Hey guys you do realize there are websites like gasbuddy that will show the prices of gas in your area.
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Old 11-28-2018, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Hey guys you do realize there are websites like gasbuddy that will show the prices of gas in your area.
Yes, of course. But I drive past most local stations every day so I have a pretty good idea what they are charging. It has taken several weeks, but prices have FINALLY dropped here, despite oil prices cratering a month ago. (We are at roughly $2.70 to $2.75 now in the Caribou area. Usually, they all charge the exact same price, but when oil prices are dropping really fast, they seem to lose the ability to all charge the exact same price at the pump..........they can't "keep up" with what's going on when price per barrel is dropping two or three dollars per day. That's one reason I hope for extreme oil price volatility).
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Old 11-28-2018, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Caribou, Me.
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Natural Gas crosses in Houlton. Tankers hauling fuel oil, kero, and gas cross at Madawaska. You can take that to the bank. There was an Irving tanker that crashed on Rt 6 a few years back, so they must cross in Calais on occasion as well.
So let's take Houlton; do they truck the oil products up to Madawaska, then back down Route 1 to Houlton? Doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
I never, ever see any Irving tanker trucks coming south into Caribou (or any other tankers either, for that matter.) They are always coming north with product. Does that mean those who are crossing in Madawaska are serving only the Valley?
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