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Diesel Soars to Record High, Impacting 3.5 Million American Truckers
Breitbart ^ | 03/09/2022 | Wendell Husebo

Posted on 03/09/2022 4:05:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The national average price for diesel fuel on Wednesday reached an all-time record high, impacting 3.5 million American truckers throughout the nation.

Rising 84 cents in one week, Wednesday’s national average hit $4.883, up 13 cents overnight, according to AAA.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: diesel; record; soars; truckers
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Wait until people go to the grocery store and see the prices... I predicted this 2 years ago when they started sending out stimulus checks.
1 posted on 03/09/2022 4:05:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A while back, I was reading about dual-fuel trucks, which could run on either diesel or liquified natural gas.

LNG is cheaper than diesel, but the infrastructure to fuel trucks with it isn’t there.

There was discussion during the Trump years, but not much lately.

They would be handy about now.

https://www.naturalgasworld.com/technology-dual-fuel-lng-truck-engines-gas-in-transition-88517


2 posted on 03/09/2022 4:14:48 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There nothing we can do about it said the class clown


3 posted on 03/09/2022 4:15:21 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It will only effect the people who pay the truckers 🤪


4 posted on 03/09/2022 4:16:30 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: SauronOfMordor

I see a lot of UPS delivery trucks that run on CNG.
Those guys understand their costs down to the tenth of a cent per mile so they would be a good test case.


5 posted on 03/09/2022 4:16:50 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Sunoco station in Saylorsburg, PA had Diesel this morning for $6.19 a gallon.


6 posted on 03/09/2022 4:18:11 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Grocery prices have already jumped. And now the prices might jump even higher? (Way to go, Brandon!)


7 posted on 03/09/2022 4:22:37 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: EvilCapitalist

And Dems wonder why food prices are so high. If you bought it, truckers brought it.


8 posted on 03/09/2022 4:23:12 PM PST by Windcatcher (Time to fly the other black flag -- one of no quarter for Marxists.)
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To: nascarnation

Compressed natural gas is good for short-haul trucks that can refuel frequently, LNG is better for long haul trucks.

https://www.uti.edu/blog/diesel/cng-lpg-lng-fuel#:~:text=LNG%20is%20frozen%20in%20order,many%20long%2Dhaul%20trucking%20companies.


9 posted on 03/09/2022 4:24:10 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Windcatcher

The Democrats have no clue how to be a government , it’s just Me Me Me


10 posted on 03/09/2022 4:24:48 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is going to affect the prices contractors charge.

Gasoline used to be a cost that you could ignore, for the most part.

11 posted on 03/09/2022 4:25:34 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get ready for the big suck.


12 posted on 03/09/2022 4:26:08 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Altura Ct.

13 posted on 03/09/2022 4:27:09 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: butlerweave

Basic economics doesn’t apply either.


14 posted on 03/09/2022 4:29:19 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$6.77 in CA.


15 posted on 03/09/2022 4:41:45 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Windcatcher

Not just food.
Every dang thing comes in by trucks.
Pray for Trump.


16 posted on 03/09/2022 4:45:05 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: Windcatcher

Our fuel surcharge chart doesn’t go high enough for todays fuel prices. But it will. Businesses don’t pay these prices, the consumer does. We’re at the bottom rung of the ladder with bulk agricultural products. Sorry, folks. I didn’t vote for Biden either.


17 posted on 03/09/2022 4:45:27 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Truckers Convoy is going around Washington day after day expending God knows how much money on expensive gas and the media doesn’t cover it and Biden doesn’t notice or if he does, he laughs. I feel sorry for these guys because I don’t see anybody notice, and they are wasting incredible amounts of money. There has to be another way.


18 posted on 03/09/2022 5:05:29 PM PST by BEJ
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hard to believe but they’re going to have to add another window in the price display! $10.00 I remember when it went to above a dollar. The pumps had to be changed out to accommodate the 1. Oh well.


19 posted on 03/09/2022 5:13:57 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules
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To: US_MilitaryRules

I remember at the time of the 2008 price spike a lot of the pumps would only allow 75 bucks worth on a credit card.


20 posted on 03/09/2022 5:18:08 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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