





Acme Fuel is a local, 3rd generation, family owned business that’s committed to providing its customers the best products and services, while also being good stewards of our community and the environment.
While this can be a matter of opinion, we encourage auto fill for our customers. This way you always get the best price for fuel, and you get priority service. There is NO extra charge for auto fill.
We use a few methods. Most customers are on a degree day schedule. Degree days are a measure of how cold the weather is. Our computer computes your K factor, which is like miles per gallon on a car; it is the rate at which you burn fuel for heat, which is correlated to the weather. Then we determine whether or not you have non-heat related appliances like water heaters, and we build in a gallon/day formula for that. The computer system takes all these factors and generates a ticket accordingly. We try to make a delivery when your tank is 2/3 empty. While this may sound confusing, and is by no means perfect, it has been around for a very long time and is quite accurate.
The other method is called a Julian method; with this method, we deliver to you every certain number of days. This works well if you have a large mix of non-heat related appliances, or a swimming pool heater. More information can be found by Googling degree day schedules.
Absolutely NOT! We only add sales tax to the price of fuel.
No, this just means that the delivery driver verified that when the fuel was delivered, odorant was present in the fuel. This is a safety requirement. It is a good thing!
We buy our fuel and we add a set per gallon margin to it. The only differences are tank size or lease/own status. Basically, on any given day, everyone with the same set up (ie: all customers with a 500 gallon owned tank), will pay the exact same price. You pay a little more per gallon for a smaller tank, a little less for a larger tank. We don’t charge different prices to different customers just because we can; we don’t feel that that’s fair.
Simple answer, no. As explained in “How do you price your fuel?”, we like to treat everyone fairly and equally. While some companies try to come in with “teaser rates” to try to gain business, our thought is if we can’t give our existing customers that special price, we shouldn’t give it to others. Our only discount is on the first fill up on a tank that is purchased or leased from Acme and our prompt pay discount of 5 cents per gallon.
The short answer is sometimes yes, and sometimes no. We base our pricing on our wholesale cost. Sometimes it’s cheaper in the summer, sometimes it’s not. It just depends on what’s going on in the world and local markets. Some companies will artificially lower their prices in order to “trick” people into thinking they are a bargain, only to raise it dramatically in the winter. Again, we simply add our margin to our cost and do not play unfair pricing games.
This is by far the most commonly asked question, and by far the most difficult to answer. There are so many factors involved. Mainly the weather, your households habits, the efficiency of your home and equipment, the size of your house, what appliances you have, etc. Literally, you could take 10 identical homes with 10 different families, and while their rate of consumption may go up and down together based on the weather, their individual family consumption will be different due to different habits.
This explanation will help you to figure out a baseline of your consumption.
1 gallon of propane has approximately 92,500 Btu’s (British Thermal Unit – a measure of energy content) in it. You can calculate how much your appliances will burn by knowing the Btu’s of the appliance and the Btu’s of propane. For instance, if your gas fireplace is 30,000 Btu’s, you will burn approximately 1 gallon for every 3 hours it runs (92,500 divided by 30,000).
Average Btu’s of different appliances and the average annual consumption for a family of four;
Contact us online or call us during business hours Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm on 360 943 1133.
Effective April 1, 2022, all credit/debit card payments for Fast Fuel invoices will incur a 3% surcharge to cover the costs of the credit/debit card fees charged to us.
We have resisted doing this, but with the increasing fees and the increasing price of fuel, we cannot absorb the costs any longer.
We encourage you to sign up for email statements and ACH billing. Not only do you avoid the fee, but we will give you an additional 5 cent per gallon DISCOUNT on fuel purchases made at our stations.
It is with both joy and sadness that I am announcing to you that we have sold the assets of our propane and heating oil division to Blue Star Gas.
My dad, Tom, and I worked very hard to find the right "fit" for both our employees and you, our valued customers. After a long vetting process, we determined that Blue Star is about as perfect of a fit as we could have asked for!
Like us, Blue Star is a third-generation family-owned business with the same values that we share of taking care of our customers and employees. In addition, they have the size and resources to provide many more services than we can offer. I know that they will take as good or even better care of you than we did!
On behalf of my dad and myself, I would like to thank you for being loyal customers for all these years!
Sincerely,
Christophe Allen
As of today (12/10/21), Acme Fuel has sold its assets to Blue Star Gas and we are pleased to welcome ACME Fuel customers to the Blue Star Gas family.
Blue Star Gas has operated in the Puget Sound area for 10 years out of our location in Tukwila. We are enjoying our 83rd year in business and I am the third generation to run the company. Blue Star Gas started in 1938 on the north coast of California, and currently serve 15 unique markets throughout California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Utah.
We are grateful to the Allen family for allowing us this opportunity. We recognize the incredible reputation ACME Fuel has in the community and with its customers.
Rest assured there will be no disruption to your service as a result of this transition. I am pleased to share that all the ACME drivers have accepted our offer of employment, as well as much of the personnel in the Olympia office, which will remain open.
I would like to personally thank you for the opportunity to be your propane supplier and look forward to adding your relationship to thousands we have served for many decades.
Sincerely,
Jeff Stewart
President