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FUEL COST TROUBLES * USA - WHY IS DIESEL PRICED HIGHER THAN GAS?
Diesel fuel prices surpass $4 a gallon nationally, causing financial hardship and changes at trucking companies
Fredericksburg,VA,USA -The Free Lance-Star, by KELLY HANNON -5 April 2008: -- Fredericksburg-area drivers are forking over more than $3 for a gallon of gas, but diesel fuel has already surpassed the $4 mark... Local trucking companies are looking for ways to offset their increased expense... "It's causing us to put everything we do under the microscope," said Dan Amos, safety director for Payne Trucking in Fredericksburg. The price of diesel "is our No. 1 concern every day."... And it's not just truckers who should be concerned... Diesel fuel is the lifeblood of the nation's commercial delivery system... So higher delivery costs eventually get passed on to consumers in the form of increased prices for goods and services... Trucking companies signed contracts for some work long before diesel prices went up, so they're forced to make up those difference themselves.. Companies are doing what they can to save fuel... (Photo: The rising cost of diesel fuel is 'taking the profit out of everything,' says New Jersey trucker Dennis Branaccio. Eighty gallons at Mr. Fuel cost him $306)
* ANOTHER COMMENT: Diesel is higher than gas because...
Posted on the Free Lance-Star, by dadster3 -Apr 5, 2008: -- After the gas crisis in the late 1970's the bozocrats in DC decided that the way to cut petroleum use was to tax it more. For reasons never explained diesel took the biggest hit, I suspect because the US auto industry was committed to gas and didn't want the competition from foreign car manufacturers who were the only source of diesel cars. This was nuts, of course, since diesel takes less refining, has more energy per gallon, and provides better mileage than an equivalent sized gas engine...
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