Posted on 06/15/2022 1:19:44 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Diesel prices are setting records, nationwide, as a gallon of the fuel now averages $5.72 as of Wednesday.
Drivers fueling up at a truck stop in east Houston said the pain at the pump is crippling as rising prices force some to park their rigs.
Houstonian Raymond Mayberry said he’s been a truck driver since 2003. He’s a self-employed trucker.
Even with the help of fuel-saving apps and a rewards program at the truck stop, Mayberry said he’s counting “every penny” because the almost-daily rise in diesel price affects his bottom line.
“It comes out of our profit. If you make $3,000, you’ve got to know $700 of that is coming out of your profit.”
The financial pain is enough to make Mayberry wince.
“Oh yeah. When I first started, diesel was $.99," he said.
Analysts expect fuel prices will continue to rise through the summer. Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico could drive prices even higher, which is why other truckers are counting their blessings.
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“No independent trucker with an ounce of business sense would be parking his truck over high fuel costs. These costs should be passed along to the customer. Any trucker who hasn’t figured that out probably went out of business a long time ago.
Based on what I’ve been reading in the industry publications, what’s REALLY driving this is that the trucking rates have dropped considerably in recent months as demand has declined. For all the reports we see every day about supply chain constraints, the grim truth is that there isn’t enough demand anymore to keep all these truckers in business.”
Oooh look!
Reason finally appears! No “conspiracy” required!
In other news, all the crops were planted around me including the property I rent out....
99 cents before the federal government weaponized the fuel by stripping all sulfur from it.
Diesel was a byproduct of first distillation of crude before the greenies required it to be processed more at the refinery. Price of fuel jumped, more machinery and labor to get final product.
Then the EPA hit and said, we will go further green and require all this BS parts and DEF systems. Cost of big rigs, trucks and farm equipment prices go up by the 10s of thousands of dollars.
I am not even going to go into the money lost due to repairs because of the ULSD.
THANKS FERAL GOVERNMENT
[Rome rotted from the inside out. It was easily invaded because it was occupied with internal problems.]
And the godless have cheered while America was being killed with death from 10,000 cuts.
Then came anti-NWO President Trump ... that was not going to be allowed to continue.
This stuff is going to continue all the way until the 7-year deal of ‘Peace and Security’.
And then the fun really begins on planet Earth ... and it won’t be shut off until Armageddon.
Hold on to your hats, brothers and sisters.
You went to NY by choice?
People persist in calling the primary energy sources of the world, petroleum and natural gas, “fossil fuels”. Most of the hydrocarbon fuels existing today were formed by abiotic means, and they are not “dinosaur soup”. No matter what your third grade teacher taught you.
Methane, natural gas, was present in very large quantity as part of the composition of the earth’s atmosphere when the molten mass that w to become our planet was first formed. The other constituents of the atmosphere were carbon dioxide, ammonia and water vapor. There was no free oxygen, which was all bound up in the carbon dioxide and the water vapor. It was only when the earth cooled enough, and the microbiota evolved to the point where they could convert the carbon dioxide and now condensed water into carbohydrates and free oxygen, that the atmosphere we know and breathe today could begin to form. When ammonia oxidizes (and it is a very combustible fuel), the reaction forms free nitrogen and more water. Today our atmosphere is some 78% nitrogen, a relatively unreactive element, 21% oxygen, a highly reactive element, and about 1% of other gases, of which carbon dioxide is only a small fraction of a percentage. The remainder of those gases is like small quantities of methane, argon, and other complex molecules, like water vapor and ammonia. Water vapor is actually a highly variable component in terms of percent of the atmosphere, increasing with warmth and decreasing with falling temperatures, and is the driver that controls much of the weather and overall climate on this planet.
The more complex hydrocarbons were formed under heat, pressure and a hellish combination of carbon dioxide, water molecules and methane, under superheated conditions and in the presence of a number of different catalysts at the layer of the earth between the rocky crust and the molten mater beneath called the Mohorovičić discontinuity. There, complex hydrocarbons are formed and rise into pockets within the rocky crust, becoming reservoirs of petroleum and natural gas, which we tap into today by drilling down and fracking of the rocky layers.
This continuous reaction is going on all the time, and is entirely independent of whatever amount of any organic matter gets trapped beneath the earth’s crust, and subject to a lesser amount of heat and pressure, forming hydrocarbons through thermal depolymerization, a process that can be done on an industrial scale right here on the surface of the earth, converting organic waste into kerogen, the technical name for crude oil.
If the current Powers That Be were TRULY concerned about making everything “green” in terms of converting everything to electric power, first make sure the capacity to generate the electric power is there in both quantity and reliability. Nobody EVER had to question the reliability of power generation by hydroelectric means, whether at Niagara Falls, or the many hydroelectric installations that even today dot the landscape. The largest problem with the hydroelectric generation is that they are limited in their placement, sometimes far from population centers, requiring long-distance transmission lines, with their cost and inevitable loss of power while passing through the wiring, radiated away as heat. Only a little bit for each mile, but it adds up over distance.
That is why coal plants and Diesel generation stations came into operation in the nearer locations to the population and industrial centers, to reduce this loss of power over long transmission lines. And eventually why uranium-fueled light water reactor power generation plants were funded and built relatively close to industry and residential user locations. These nuclear power plants could run 24/7/365 at flat-out maximum output for YEARS before needing refueling, but this meant that “spent” uranium fuel rods, which still retained about 97% of residual power, had to be removed and either reprocessed, or kept in storage for periods ranging up to something like 10,000 years before the residual radioactivity died down.
Enter several technical and engineering advances, making it possible to use thorium, a much more available and stable nuclear fuel, to build thorium-fueled molten salt nuclear reactors, which can also run 24/7/365 flat-out full maximum for years, but are inherently much safer, and also as important, can be scaled up or down in size to fit the locality. Because of the design, there is no possibility of having a meltdown that releases a large radioactive cloud, like the Chernobyl or Fukushima nuclear disasters. And perhaps even more important than any other reason for adoption, the “spent” uranium fuel rods must be used to initiate the thorium-fueled reaction which does not start spontaneously, eventually consuming most or all of the fuel rods now in storage, so the world does not have to wait 10,000 years for them to become relatively harmless.
So get the hell busy building all this electrical generation infrastructure, so the grand schemes of making the whole world powered by electricity other than by burning hydrocarbon fuels can be realized. Wind and solar power are just too unreliable and wasteful of resources for use in other than niche applications, they cannot possible supply the power demands for any advanced civilization by themselves.
And still the people will refuse to face God and repent. That's the amazing part to me. Incredible disasters, 1/3 of life wiped out, and STILL the people, in their arrogance, turn inward and away from their creator.
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Great post.
It’s amazing how myth-bound the people are.
Self-governing, watchdog press, fossil fuels, global warming, rule of law ... it’s a long list of fundamental gullibility and mistake.
he warned the family then to get what you needed as he knew a lot of independents doing the same. His house is paid for, his wife works and they have savings. For now.
Yep things arent looking too rosey
yup. the architect Barry Sotero, said it right here, years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSZ62xiD4M
Not going to help the ongoing problems with the supply chain or with inflation.
It's not quite that black and white in my opinion, but I would agree with this assertion with one modificaton:
Supply and demand are balanced around a price point. Prices skyrocketing affect both sides of the equation. Because the commodity in question is the transport of other commodities, "demand" is created by the producers of those other commodities, who have their own balancing act around their own price point. When the cost of producing transport of those other commodities rises relentlessly, that price point pressure doesn't directly affect the price points for the transported commodity.
The deliberate inflation of the cost to transport material and product has depressed demand significantly. With the inflation already factored into the cost to produce the transported commodities, there is little room for the increased transportation cost in the price point for the transported commodities.
Sorry to be so long winded. The bottom line to me is that the fuel costs are another method to deliberately try to destroy the economy and country in order that the socialists can erect their Utopia.
Uh, nuclear fission would work quite nicely. The anti-nuke memes were started and initially funded by the KGB during the cold war...
“You went to NY by choice?”
Absolutely — to the town and church my ancestors founded in the late 1700s in southwestern NYS. Sister (Baldwin77) and I organized a “Cousins Reunion”. There were around 100 people from around the globe (missionaries), including my mom who’s 98. It was a blast. Some of us hadn’t seen each other in 40-50 years.
Communists love using starvation as a weapon.
Independent truckers get their loads through Brokers. Brokers say, I have a load of widgets going here, pays…pick the trailer up at…Don’t like the rate? I have 10 others behind you that will take it. Pretty soon the trucker drives for free.
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