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 bad is it for truckers and trucking companies?
The national average price for diesel rose sixteen cents last week from the previous week and has gone up by 1/3rd just since the start of the year
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. 70% of the goods that Americans consume are moved about 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.
Another place where the impact is felt is highway fatalities. Truckers do have strict regulations on how many hours they can drive and how many hours they have to rest in between. Already, under more normal economic conditions, these regulations were routinely stretched. But now there are less trucking companies and less truckers carrying the same load so something's gotta give somewhere. Truckers are also willing to work longer hours because they are making less profit per hour. So, in a very direct way, the increased price of diesel is costing lives right here in the USA. 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 want to maintain anything close to the lifestyle that we have enjoyed in previous years 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.
is providing information for a nominal fee which folks can use in their garage or wherever to put together a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their automobile runs on.
What this does is make bite sized particles out of the particles that the engine burns as fuel. Therefore it gets to use a lot more of the fuel.
With WATER4GAS you can reasonably expect to increase your MPG by 30-50% or even more. Those particles "musta" been pretty darn big in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can increase your MPG.
It also helps to lower emissions significantly.
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