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?
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
The number of trucking companies filing for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2008 was up 1/5th from the first quarter of 2007 at almost one thousand companies
This catastrophe for the truckers is hurting every other aspect of the American economy and beyond. 3/4s of consumables are moved to the consumers in America by trucks. How else are you going to get lobster to Kansas for instance? . So the price of all of these things will be going up if they have not started to already The price of food is one area where the price increase has already started and it is linked in part to the increase in the cost of diesel.
The higher cost of trucking has also made our highways less safe. 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. 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. And also the profit margin for the truckers is being cut into by the cost of diesel which is rising faster than the government surcharges can compensate them for. 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 havoc caused by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve policies over the last eight years 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. is sharing information for a nominal fee which people can use at home to build a small gizmo which infuses hydrogen into the gas/air mixture that their vehicle runs on. The process makes bite sized particles out of the particles that the engine burns as fuel. Because of the smaller size it is able to use much more of it. With WATER4GAS you can minimumly expect to improve your MPG by 30-50% or significantly more. Those molecules "musta" been pretty "blankin'" big in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can improve your MPG. It also helps make emissions significantly cleaner. This information has been purchased by over 10s of thousands of people already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?
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