Relax guys, everything I've heard to date is that we are already paying for the cost of ULSD upgrades, etc with the increased cost of #2 over unleaded. I would expect September 1 to be just like any other day, you'll get raped for the cost of fuel, but no more than on August 31st.
You have to realize that the cost of ULSD is only partially in the extra refining. The rest is in refinery upgrades, pipelines, trucking, etc, which for various reasons, will be more difficult with ULSD (because they will still run LSD in all of the above, and there are issues with ULSD sulphur contamination). They are already making us pay for THAT. So, My guess is that the cost increase will be modest (I've seen projections of 5 to 20 cents a gallon) not 2.50 a gallon like this link says. Granted, 20 cents will put us right at about 3 dollars up here, but I am not sure that gasoline will be far behind if some of our policies on drilling, etc don't change quickly.
The sky isn't falling any more than it was before ULSD.
