crudeman
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eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
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Camping Hoosiers
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crudeman wrote:eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
Don't bet on it! Anyone running trucks right now is having a hard time adjusting price and fuel surcharge enough to stay in business. I am shelling out half a million per week for fuel and it hurts!
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One Country Boy
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Diesel is $4.899 (per gal) at home here in Florida. I know it's higher in some places, lower in others. I still feel ripped off when I fill up.
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DanHouck
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Perpetual, Mexico is currently chosing to subsidze fuel prices, that's why diesel is much cheaper here. Sooner or later they'll have to give it up, the country really can't afford it.
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Camping Hoosiers wrote:crudeman wrote:eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
Don't bet on it! Anyone running trucks right now is having a hard time adjusting price and fuel surcharge enough to stay in business. I am shelling out half a million per week for fuel and it hurts!
Jeff
Oh I understand, my point was it was showing one side of the facts. Someone gotta be passing down some of this increase or how they gonna stay in business.
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crudeman wrote:Camping Hoosiers wrote:crudeman wrote:eltejano1 wrote:Dick was talking about the overall economic impact of this. Yesterday I ran into one of our church members at the gas station. He had just fueled-up his three dump trucks (the big 14 yard kind on 18 wheeler tractors) on his way to a job for the school district. He showed me the ticket - $2813 and change!!! Think about that - just the fuel for one day's work!
Jack
Did he show you the ticket on the other end of what he is charging for the job? there would be the bottom line I would believe!
Don't bet on it! Anyone running trucks right now is having a hard time adjusting price and fuel surcharge enough to stay in business. I am shelling out half a million per week for fuel and it hurts!
Jeff
Oh I understand, my point was it was showing one side of the facts. Someone gotta be passing down some of this increase or how they gonna stay in business.
Crudeman: You got it right the poor trucker is either going to eat the massive fuel price increase in his contract with the school district (maybe go bust/lay off his workers which we (taxpayers) will help for a while), OR his contract will permit a passthrough for fuel price increases (doubtful) in which event we (taxpayers) will pay for it also. There ain't no free lunch, but when you got a village idiot packing the lunch bucket it's even smaller than it would be if someone who could tell time was at the helm.
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A string of service stations here DROPPED the diesel prices from $4.869 and $4.959 DOWN to $4.659 on Tuesday. I don't know why but there ya go. Hopefully others will follow suit. 
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just came back from the exon station at the corner store cheap gas is now $4.20 a gallon, diesel is $5.16 a gallon went up .20 in a week for gas ,smokes are $6.75 a pack with the new $.65 cent tax added on to the old tax they had.over $60 a carton when they get done taxing everyone theres not much left to live on,might just get forced into full timeing someplace if you want to or not,
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eltejano1
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Frank:
From what I can understand from the business news, the dollar has strengthened against the euro and yen in recent days. A fairly decent drop in oil correlated exactly with the increased value of the dollar. We've been searching here for someone to blame but I just wonder if the devalued dollar might not be the prime suspect - in which case, of course, the blame would be layed at the doorstep of Treasury Sec Paulson and his boss, my neighbor over in Crawford.
Maybe all those interest rate cuts, to avert a recession in an election year, drove the dollar down and created a large part of this mess? Whaddya Think?
Nonetheless, though, even if this present crisis stabilizes somewhat, we had better take heed and start to move away from dependence on petroleum. This is a wake-up call if I ever saw one!
Jack
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