The economy has been hit hard in so many ways by the increase in gas and diesel prices but nowhere has it been hit harder than in the trucking industry which is the lifeblood which keeps America circulating. Not the individual household, not the airline industry, nowhere has the impact been greater than on the trucking industry
How much of an upheaval is being caused to truckers and trucking companies by the rapid increase in fuel costs?
Last week the national diesel fuel price average, as tracked by the U.S. Department of Energy, was $4.497, up 16 cents from a week earlier and $1.15 or 34 percent higher than the Jan. 1 price
Nearly 1,000 trucking companies filed bankruptcy petitions in the first quarter, up 21 percent from 2007's first quarter.
This hit on the trucking industry is felt in every other sector. Seventy percent of the goods that Americans consume are trafficked from manufacturers to outlets to consumers by trucks. So the price of all of these things will be going up if they have not started to already Go to the supermarket and you will already see this impact. Food prices are being hit by inflation, the artificial scarcity brought on by the shift of growing crops for food to growing crops for energy and the increased costs for the truckers to move food to the supermarket shelves.
The higher cost of trucking has also made our highways less safe. There are regulations that truckers are supposed to follow as to how long a duration they can be out on the road driving and how long that they have to rest in between shifts. Already, under more normal economic conditions, these regulations were routinely stretched. What is happening now, though, is that less financially stable trucking companies are going bankrupt which means that more load is having to be handled by fewer companies and less truckers. Truckers are also willing to work longer hours because they are making less profit per hour. So we have more jackknifed trucks out there on the road and more death and destruction of the lives of America's truckers and unfortunate souls who happened to be on the road at the time that the driver started to doze and lost control. This is in addition to the lost lives due to biodiesel worldwide because of the shift from growing crops for food to growing crops for energy. Those number in the 10s of millions dieing from starvation and is a hushed up holocaust happening right now.
The devastation visited upon our economy by the Bush administration's policies and wars as well as the Federal Reserve's tinkering is going to be with us for decades. If we desire to live anything close to the lifestyle that the last number of generations have enjoyed in this country going into the future then we need to get creative on the grassroots level with real solutions disseminated in the fastest way possible, which right now is the internet.
One such solution is Water4Gas.
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What this does is make bite sized particles out of the particles that the engine uses as fuel. So the engine is able to use considerably more of the gas.
By doing this you can minimumly expect to increase your fuel economy by thirty to fifty percent or even more. Those particles "musta" been pretty darn huge in some systems before. But with W4G they are made usable so you can increase your fuel economy.
It also helps reduce emissions significantly.
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