High Diesel Prices Hurt Ga. Truckers

13wmaz.com ^ | 3/8/2008 | Evan Pinsonnault

[bjs1779]

I'm sure this can't be just an isolated phenomena.

[1curiousmind]

I have been waiting for this. I own a small business and often make my own deliveries even out of state. I drive a diesel truck. Of course, I bought it two months before diesel prices overtook regular a few years ago. (I’m lucky that way)

I’ve always wondered why truckers are putting up with that since diesel requires much less to refine it.

I was told that trucking companies don’t pay the same prices that guys like me have to pay at the pump.

I’d like to know if that is really true. If not, I don’t understand why they haven’t done something yet.

[mdmathis6]

Now this would be the type of strike that is justified...all that product just sitting there and all tha diesel just sitting in the station tanks not being sold. I wonder if the oil companies’ and the speculators’ “bid ‘em up” strategy know what a nasty bit of blow back they are creating. They’ll tank the rest of the economy and no one will be able to buy their product which means the Fed and states lose their fuel tax revenue as well.

We’ll gonna have to suffer a bit as this current generation needs to understand and have a taste of what the Carter years were like!(maybe even a nasty depression and famine as food stocks are also at very low levels)

[mad_as_he$$]

Truck stop diesel, Reno, NV 3/6/2008, CASH price, $3.65

[yorkie]

The President is not aware of the rising gas prices.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHtR4m9Puc8&feature=related

[HardStarboard]

Danny's got the answer right in the last sentence of the post....

>>>...we can't do that without being fairly compensated." <<<

When your costs go up, you've got to raise prices to pass the increase along.

Maybe if we see real inflation traceable to fuel costs, the ineffectual Pubbies will loose their timidity in the face of foaming-at-the-mouth environmentalists and demand an immediate approval of off-shore drilling in Florida and the Texas and drilling in ANWR.

Our energy Policy now is a slow death - which is quickly growing into a national emergency.

[RightWhale]

that product just sitting there and all tha diesel just sitting in the station tanks not being sold.

The exact situation in 1930 in East Texas. Oil dropped to 10 cents a barrel and still wasn't being sold. Great Depression. When it gets to that point then we will have something worth comment.

[upchuck]

I'm sure this can't be just an isolated phenomena.

No, it's not.

[CPT Clay]

I understand that canola oil works the same as diesel.

[RightWhale]

Got 10 million barrels of canola oil sitting around? Every day?

[Jeff Chandler]

When your costs go up, you've got to raise prices to pass the increase along.

That's what the major carriers do. They include a fuel surcharge in their rates (explicitly listed on the delivery receipts) which reflects the cost of fuel.

[Jeff Chandler]

I understand that canola oil works the same as diesel.

Even better for sauteing.

[thackney]

since diesel requires much less to refine it

Not any more; thank the EPA.

National Clean Diesel Campaign
http://www.epa.gov/diesel/

[CTSeditor]

Diesel is going for $4.30 at one local station here in New York.

[Charles Martel]

Ashley says one possible solution he, Poole, and other truckers have discussed: a trucking industry strike.

Just a guess, but I'll bet that the Mexican drivers will not be joining the strike. Heck, they probably get reimbursed for the federal fuel taxes that they pay at the pump.

[1curiousmind]

I paid $4.19 in upstate Michigan yesterday. Across the border it was $1.15 Canadian per liter which equals close to $4.50 US/gal !!! unbelievable!

[panaxanax]

I thought the $4.16 we saw upstate in Herkimer yesterday was high!

[bjs1779]

GAS VS DIESEL

03/03/08		Change from		03/03/08		Change from
	Price	Week Ago	Year Ago		Price	Week Ago	Year Ago
U.S.	316.2	3.2	65.7	U.S.	365.8	10.6	103.2
East Coast	316.8	2.0	67.7	East Coast	370.0	9.2	109.6
New England	314.6	1.2	63.1	New England	381.3	10.3	112.0
Central Atlantic	316.4	1.6	63.8	Central Atlantic	382.5	13.2	115.7
Lower Atlantic	317.7	2.4	71.9	Lower Atlantic	363.6	7.4	106.8
Midwest	308.0	0.0	61.5	Midwest	363.9	11.4	103.3
Gulf Coast	308.8	3.2	72.1	Gulf Coast	360.9	9.9	102.2
Rocky Mountain	308.8	3.7	73.5	Rocky Mountain	357.3	10.0	91.5
West Coast	338.6	12.1	62.1	West Coast	373.6	12.7	94.1
California	345.9	13.1	56.2

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/gdu/gasdiesel.asp

[Charles Martel]

Here's a DOE link on the costs associated with Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel. Looks like somewhere between 5 and 8 cents per gallon, far less than the current price difference.

Things will get very interesting as more diesel-powered passenger vehicles enter the U.S. market.

LINK

[tcrlaf]

Perhaps a fuels tax CUT could help alleviate the problem??

OOPSY!
That would asking WAY TOO MUCH, wouldn’t it?

Can we drill ANWAR, yet?