GL: Florida East Coast Fuel

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I passed G Hechtman's message regarding diesel fuel
at Fernandina and Fort Pierce to my brother-in-law
in the Palm Beach area.  I thought his reply might be
interesting and give additional tips for loopers, etc.

I also added another of his comments regarding the
amount of fuel a well-known boater (yachter?) took
on just in front of him.

If anyone is interested, I may be able to get phone
numbers and locations of those tanker outfits from him.

As is often said, if you have to ask the cost of the fuel
it uses, you surely canl't afford it!


** D C "Mac" Macdonald **
* m/v Another Adventure *
** '95 Carver 355 ACMY **
* Grand Lake - Oklahoma *
** AGLCA (#217) & USPS **


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To: k2gkk at hotmail.com

Thanks for the tip!

We have an account with Port Consolidated for our trucks
but they're generally higher than the market. We keep it
active though because they will have fuel and electricity
at all times, for the fire and police dep'ts., as a disaster-
relief-go-to-fuel depot.

I also have a couple of tanker trucks I use for fueling my
boat. They pull into an agreeing marina, pay them 5 cents
per gallon, and still sell to me for $.50 less than market;
a lot of bucks!

I filled up right behind Tiger Woods once, and then asked
the driver how much fuel he took. When he said 10,000
gallons, 2 trucks, I asked how long that would last him.
He said, probably 3 months as he was headed for Mexico

Imagine!


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To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
From: ghechtman at aol.com
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:38:25 -0500
Subject: GL: Florida East Coast Fuel

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In Fort Pierce, Port Consolidated ; aka Port Petroleum, is a little
hard to find. They sit at the end of a little cove, barges on the
south side; look for the large empty frame of an old Gulf station
sign to the west in the charted 23 ft niche in the turning basin just
south of Fl gr "187", If the guy is in the office, he responds to
channel 10. "John", who fueled us up was extremely helpful and nice.

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