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TRUCKING COSTS * USA
* Pensilvania - Slower trucks could cut fuel demand, prices
Wilkes-Barre,PA,USA -The Times Leader, by Ron Bartizek -4 March 2012: ... That’s it – don’t allow semi-trailers or other large trucks to go more than 55 miles per hour and we’ll cut fuel consumption enough to make fuel suppliers compete harder for our gasoline and diesel dollars... Will it work? Just read what truck maker Kenworth said in a white paper on fuel economy: “Approximately half the energy used by a truck traveling 55 mph is to simply move the air around that truck. At 65 mph, about two-thirds of the energy is used to cut through the air” ... Given that a fully loaded tractor-trailer gets something in the range of 6 miles per gallon, that 10 mph reduction would save about 15 percent on fuel costs. That would be real money, since trucks consume about 22 billion gallons of diesel each year... How do you slow them down? This may be a two-step process. First, require that all trucks be equipped with devices that limit their maximum speed to 55 mile per hour. This is where government could do something really helpful by financing the installation with interest-free loans. If we can subsidize banks by letting them borrow from the Treasury at zero interest, surely we could afford this...
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