Lovin the fuel prices!
03-16-2008 | 04:36 PM
#21
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From: Delaware
$3.99 in Delaware.. I can also forsee $5.00 a gallon this summer. I wonder when we will hit a point when there will be push back on the price of fuel? I always thought it would be the $5.00/gal point...
03-16-2008 | 07:45 PM
#23
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From: Alvin
I saw $4.069 in Webster/Clear Lake today. Could not believe it. I also saw $3.999 in Alvin (where I live). Houston seems to be hovering right around $3.85-$3.89. Regular is right at $3.20. They must be replacing the sulfer with gold for lubricity.
03-17-2008 | 11:04 AM
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I've driven from Rochester, MN to Chicagosuburbish a few times in the last week, and I've seen it go from $3.85 to $4.15 at one truck stop in that time. The truckers are talking about being told to expect $5 by the end of June. Most of the owner operators that are on the airwaves are saying that they are, on average, at or almost upside down now. They cannot survive $4/gal long term, and certainly not $5. The only option is to raise shipping significantly, but that will still kill the OO's. The large trucking companies buy fuel in bulk, so they are not paying the pump price at the truck stops.
This is all just another step in the effort to irradicate independence. The credit companies want us burried so that they will have a long term revenue stream, and the oil companies are helping get us there. Ultimately, it's the same group of eletists that are running the government and the big business. Together they want a nation of subjects, not independent citizens. They make more money if everyone can't afford to work for a small shop and pay off debt. Once the little guys are gone, then they can balance income / expenses of the population, and keep us burried in subjugation.
that's mhy $4 worth . . . .
This is all just another step in the effort to irradicate independence. The credit companies want us burried so that they will have a long term revenue stream, and the oil companies are helping get us there. Ultimately, it's the same group of eletists that are running the government and the big business. Together they want a nation of subjects, not independent citizens. They make more money if everyone can't afford to work for a small shop and pay off debt. Once the little guys are gone, then they can balance income / expenses of the population, and keep us burried in subjugation.
that's mhy $4 worth . . . .
03-17-2008 | 11:45 AM
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From: Port Deposit, MD
Spoke with an owner/operator I know on Saturday, he is spending approx. $1,400 a week on fuel (~43% of total gross).
Tell me that can last? He is dead serious about parking the truck and trying to find a $20.00 an hour job. With a stay at home Mom, he'll be heading for Foreclosure in no time. Sad really, aside from us just STOPPING and destroying the whole economy in a week, this is going to be a long, drawn out process.
I can decide to drive the beater, (which I do). If I was attempting to make a living with a diesel powered vehicle I would be really concerned right now.
Tell me that can last? He is dead serious about parking the truck and trying to find a $20.00 an hour job. With a stay at home Mom, he'll be heading for Foreclosure in no time. Sad really, aside from us just STOPPING and destroying the whole economy in a week, this is going to be a long, drawn out process.
I can decide to drive the beater, (which I do). If I was attempting to make a living with a diesel powered vehicle I would be really concerned right now.
