Sounds like an easy way to shut down the economy and blame the working class instead of the ruling class. With the DEF “shortage”, it must be hard. Trump, the lock down prez, couldn’t have done it better, and probably couldn’t have done it longer. How long did he preside over restricting travel?
Let’s go Brandon.
We will all live in a food desert soon.
We took a road trip TN-NY-TN last week. There were noticeably much fewer trucks on the road than in the past. On June 6 it became like the Twilight Zone when we saw only one or two trucks during a three-hour span on I-79 in WV.
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.
Breaking point for all Truckers is $7.50 a gallon.
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
Not going to help the ongoing problems with the supply chain or with inflation.
The fabulist reporters forgot “unexpectedly”
E. Pluribus Unum :” We will all live in a food desert soon. ..You do realize it is all by design? “
[We will all live in a food desert soon.]
SaveFerris : “You may be right.
Maybe that's the plan? Make the people starve and then they'll submit? Is that from '1984'?
The world, especially the West, seems to be going out of their way to make like even more difficult for their citizens. /change my mind "
(From the news source):” Houstonian Raymond Mayberry said he’s been a truck driver since 2003. He’s a self-employed trucker.
The rising costs of trucking trickle down to goods and groceries as companies struggle to manage inflation. .
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.”
“These customers,” said Mayberry of the people who hire him to haul goods across the country.
“They want to pay you the same amount they paid you six, seven months ago. They can’t do it. And me, I’ll let my truck sit.” (Emphasis mine)
More than $700 worth of diesel fuel now gets Mayberry to Atlanta for his delivery.
But with prices at the pump rising daily, truckers like Mayberry don’t yet know how much it will cost to get them home.”
(MY COMMENT): This war on alleged 'Fossil Fuel' is all man-made, by supposed well-meaning actors that we call government,especially this current administration.
So also aren't the wars and resulting fertilizer 'shortage', as well a social chaos, inflation, stagflation, and.
The current administration insists that we should commit national and family self-sabotage due to climate change, and are committed to strictly renewable sources of energy.
We should have learned the lesson that Germany is currently experiencing that renewable energy sources are unreliable,
and that an abrupt change in energy policy without any "gradual transition" without alternatives is foolhardy.
The current _resident ran on a policy of "transition" of energy, but this isn't a transition; we are experiencing an abrupt termination of energy without adequate alternatives.
No new nuclear power plant has been commissioned in the last thirty years, and the electrical grid as it presently exists is insufficient and out dated.
We are in deep "do do", and our national energy abuser is the guy who is supposed to protect us from harm.
And it is all man-made and directed by design .
7.69 for diesel. LET’S GO BIDEN. Six more years.