Diesel is the first process in making Gas and it should be 1/3 the cost based on comparison of cost to produce between the two products.
these truckers will just be replaced by illegal aliens like the Harbor Container haulers
The samll companies or O/O's will just go unbder and the huge transportation companies.
The "Owner Operator Independent Association" sounds like a sham phony shill group
I'm 100% behind this, Our own US government is totally screwing us on every level !
Let's not forget State and Local Gov'ts. They are very bit as wasteful, corrupt and overbearing as the Feds. They just don't get the exposure.
Amen to that, though I am pretty certain that freight railroads are not subsidized. While gas taxes pay for every other form of transport that can't pay for itself, the real problem is the fact that our own government insists that we not be energy independent. We could, if we really wanted to, drill for all the oil we needed in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, but we don't want to, thanks to NIMBYs and other elected idiots who stand in the way of progress. The same goes for refineries too.
I wish them all the best.
Can’t wait for the super-capitalists on this site to come here and trash the unions and everyone else that thinks that Americans are getting hosed by the myth of “free trade”.
Diesel is the first process in making Gas and it should be 1/3 the cost based on comparison of cost to produce between the two products.
So how many gallons of low sulphur diesel do you get out of that 42 gallon barrel of crude? Diesel demand will play a large part in the pricing scheme.
A silent, hard working not-realy-a-minority (the truckers) are pushed into a corner.
This is not only unfair, but it can develop into a huge mess if this ignored ‘minority’ the truckers keep getting the short of of the proverbial stick.
Is it that perhaps the brains up high are just planning something??? Nah, that could not be now, could it???
I am not taking a side, but just suggesting an entrepreneurial revolution that an electric generator would create?
Someone has to have done it?
What gets me is the feds want to help homeowners who are in the mess they’re in because of their own incompetence..meanwhile, those out there who have done everything they were suppoesd to do is getting screwed..as usual.
If a strike goes nation wide, this could be devastating...if you got it, a truck brought it.
Huge amounts of diesel go to the military first, then what’s left over go to the American consumer. When I was in Kuwait I saw tanker truck convoys lining up that stretched for miles getting ready to move into Iraq. I’m completely for the effort in Iraq, but the fact that diesel is so expensive is purely the fault of the greeny Dems (and RINO’s like governor Jeb Bush) blocking any kind of oil exploration anywhere in the USA.
We can’t have coal fired electricity, we can’t have nuclear electricity. The Army Corps of Bungeleers is spilling water around the dams to “save” Salmon instead of creating electricity. We can’t drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, off of Florida, off of California, off of Oregone, and in ANWR.
We can’t build more refineries, we can’t log in public lands, we can’t build houses anywhere there’s an endangered bug, we can’t harvest salvage logs after a major Western forest fire, we can’t do anything is this country!
When the economy takes a dive we blame “the evil corporations” and complain that our 401k’s aren’t pulling in %12 annually.
I frankly am getting very close to not caring anymore. Is it any wonder that voter participation is at such a low level? What difference does voting make? Why did I serve in this countries military for over 20 years? It’s pathetic to see.
Any guesses?
A friend owns a trucking company.
She says that each 10 cent increase in the price of diesel costs her drivers $200 per week.
If they do go on strike, you had better be stocked up on food.
In what world?
I have a friend who has probably over a hundred tractor trailers, pays his guys well and they are making good money.
I think the issue is that independents are considered more risky and perhaps less reliable than those large enough to own at least a modest fleet of vehicles.
As far as the cost of fuel, that gets past on to the customer down the line one way or another.
The tax on diesel is $0.244/gallon for the fed compared to $0.184/gallon for gasoline. That tax has been the same within one tenth of a cent since 1993. The average state+fed tax on diesel is $0.536/gallon compared to $0.47 for gasoline.
The oil producers and refiners are responsible for the other $3.50.
Oil and refined petroleum products are at an all time high, meanwhile a new water treatment plant just went online in Crapistan.