Diesel prices keep on trucking higher

That is an interesting piece of info...

As consumers, most of us, think of the gas price, but then forget about the fuel for truckers. Typically, a fuel charge is a little harder to explain on the why's for diseal fuels...not just for the truckers, but we think over-all too.

The science is there to eithier increase the diesel distance...or createt a mixture of other energy fuels. To combine and digest an effecient fuel. N.A.S.A . science might be a little too explosive n their fuels...lol. However, it could help a mixture intp a feasable cost effective ratio for trucking fuel. The science is there. And maybe more cost effective.

Another solution that may get missed...To increase the volume of freight for truckers as to more full loads or increase volume loads to help offset the increase charges. The economy is sluggish...so truckers or even in the air-line industry may have a problem. A big one. So, that means more fuel cost with less. To increase that ratio.

The last suggestion that we thought about that may actually help to drop the fuel prices or at least make a stament back to the gas/fuel/oil companies. A strike to stop...it may help. And then proceed in collective bargaining. A strategy.

I don't believe higher oil prices are to blame for these problems. If you look at the cost of gold at or near $1000 per ounce we are seeing a weak dollar. I wouldn't expect companies to keep prices down if the dollar doesn't carry as much weight. I was stationed in Germany 20 years ago when the DM was 4 to every 1 US dollar. The Germans didn't like that and we are in their shoes now. People are placing the same standard on the dollar as they always have. To get more value out of our dollar it must be strengthened against the world's currency system. To claim it's the oil companies or OPEC I believe is wrong. They have to charge more just to recoup to get the same value for their product. We have a tendency to blame others for our woes but it is our fault. The dollar just doesn't buy as much as it used to.

Hike in fuel can be due to many situations

1) The falling value of the US Dollar
2) Tense political situations with oil producing countries
3) Lowered local production
4) High demand - increasing population and number of cars on the road
5) Limited resources - oil wells may be running out in the next 20-50 years
7) Or could be a coalition formed by oil companies that want higher profit for the same output.

Either one, all of the above may be true.

To solve this problem:

1) Use alternative energy sources - solar/wind/biofuel/waves/water
2) Use renewable energy sources
3) Be energy independent as much as possible
4) Be fuel savy

Prince Dudley,
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In order to curb fuel prices you will have to take people like Rush off talk radio, that dude, and every other hysterical media people are just creating this fear based thinking, and I even recently heard that guy say that we are not going to run out of oil! I guess fossil fuels will last FOREVER! WRONG THEY WILL NOT! But will we ever learn how our strings are getting yanked?

Media conflicts, create STRESS in the population, and when sharks smell blood in the water, they capitalize. Staying calm and not making emotion-based decisions I feel is the best thing we can do as consumers to keep the blood out of the water in the first place. There is no valid excuse for the gas prices to rise- it does not all of a sudden cost more for oil than it did a week ago because WE ARE RUNNING OUT, and besides, it takes longer for the oil we buy right now to be at the pumps anyway-

The flipping media makes me nuts, they cause so much sensation and out of that sensation the prices inflate, not because the value of the product suddenly went up, but because the mentality of the consumer went spiraling into the fear zone and they think they can do it without getting in too much trouble. It happens because we are DISTRACTED as we spiral into the stupid media driven orbit we live in.

It costs a lot of money in fuel to send goods by trucks all over the country, but we have a lot of coal, why can’t we send that stuff around on trains?

I know the trucking industry is getting screwed in that solution, but in the meantime they could go back to school or maybe the government can pay them not to drive a truck like they pay the farmers not to grow wheat!
Either way, it is stupid to send stuff all over in trucks, if the gas price is not going top out! What we will have to do is pick a single location in the state to deliver all the goods to, and have trains do the rest, or have people ride a bike to come get produce, that will take care of the high rates of heart attack and suicide because we will have to really work hard just to get to our food source, and we might even get some fresh air and exercise!
Get rid of all the truck routes, and deliver the food all to one place- when the wives of the oil company billionaires have to ride by train the take a bike to pick up goods they will start using left over cooking oil that they KNOW works for diesel engines and cut the CRAP!

Diesel prices are up because the crude market is up (largely on speculation and a weak dollar) and diesel requires more crude to produce a gallon vs. gasoline.

On the so-called "weak dollar," the fact that we have somewhere less than $.10 in real money sitting around for every $1.00 in circulation is the core problem. Every time the Federal Reserve cartel lowers rates and inflates, things get worse. We need a value-based currency or a change in law to dissolve the fractional reserve method of money lending. In other words, close down the Federal Reserve or at least open the scheme (scam) up to competing currencies. As it stands, instead of all of this lip service about free trade, let's actually see a free market in currency.

I have two VW diesels that I have been using B100 in. I am also working to perfect the method of mixing biodiesel myself using spent vegetable grease from a couple of Chinese restaurants that I collect from. I fully expect to be running on this entirely by summer. It costs between $.50 and $1.00 per gallon to produce in my case and there are tax incentives involved.

Good old fashioned greed is showing its "green" all over our country. But this weekend I watched Discovery Channel and saw another reason why. A Bridge Engineer wants to make his twenty year plan( to connect Europe with the United States by building a bridge that can withstand ice shifts, hazardous winds and make it possible for trains and trucks,cars only in favorable weather conditions to travel anywhere in the world by land) a reality. This bridge would affect Alaska, its wildlife such as bears, sea lions, whales just to name a few, and cost billions + on its construction.

The purpose: to transport oil via a contained pipeline that would benefit Russia. It would make diamond mining easier too.

While we are being "entertained" by the possibilities of global connection, who is aware of the experiments on climate control being done in space?

I always felt that "the country who controls the weather, controls the food supply and the economy of the World."

If you ever watched the experiment involving a magnifying glass, the sun, and a piece of paper, you know how easy it is to start a fire. By performing this experiment from a space station that conducts experiments in secrecy, it is not hard to imagine ice caps being melted for the purpose of political power.

I think our country has alot more at stake than debating the price of diesel. Wake up people,
Greed is a punishing business. Are we prepared for the consequences?

Hello Michael. Hope all is well. It was great seeing you at 40 Wall Street two months ago. Great article... The response to this article is much more complex than it seems since there are many different reasons for the high price of gas and diesel. Others have already mentioned these reasons. Looking at Europe and Asia, you will see that in fact the price of gas/diesel is NOT high! It is just that we are beginning to pay close to what Europeans were paying for a long time. Looking at it positively, the high price will teach us how to reduce our waste of energy in America and to live more responsibly (e.g., my neighbor here in Los Angeles has a Hummer AND a Ford Expedition)!

I believe the prices will continue to go up since the demand will be much higher in future due to the growing economies of India and China. Their thirst will drive the prices of oil, gas and diesel up - way up!

The solution is may be the look at alternative sources of energy such as Biofule, solar and so on. But then again we have been talking about these alternatives for years but as a nation we have not taken serious steps to reduce our dependence on oil. Hope everything is going well at 40 Wall Street. Regards,

Koz Khosravani
CEO/President
Koz Wealth Systems
http://www.KozWealthSystems.com
http://www.ExpertsTV.com

We chitchat about bio fuels as if it is a menu item. Like a selection amid potatoes or salad, or the soup of the day! As IF WE HAVE A CHOICE to discontinue using them, AS IF they will IN NO WAY run out!
We will run OUT, not anytime soon, but we will RUN out! This is not the thrust of my argument; the point is, they ARE NOT the wise business choice, as one other post here points out! Why would people spend $4.00 a gallon on Diesel when a blend of used cooking oil can run that same ENGINE for .50-1.00? Brace yourself the answer is in the observations that many have reported of the American culture. While it may be tough to hear, we are viewed as spoiled immature brats, and we like everything to be "convenient". I know there are people out there, who will disagree with this statement, but I have conversations with people the world over, they all have a similar observation of our culture, we are SPOILED, and reckless! We do not change the dependence on bio-fuel because we do not HAVE to. When we have to travel 100miles or more by bike to get produce we will consider how to make something to get us to that location in half the time, without breaking a sweat, because we ARE spoiled and we will still WANT our "stuff". We ought to TAKE advantage of this TRAIT in the American culture and just put some "stuff" out in the middle of nowhere that can only be retrieved by those willing to pull together some ideas and policy regarding the existing cars, and making news ones that people can afford. If you made it a contest, some group of geeks would fix this whole issue by Wed of next week! The problem is we just do not take advantage of whom we really are, and put those character defects to work for our advantage- rather we are content to let those defects destroy us from the inside out!
"Good old fashioned greed", it is our absolute sensational TRUTH taken root, a truth that I doubt we are prepared to pay the long-term taxes on.
This issue, is not as complex as the oil companies would have us believe- it is about wanting something better, dreaming it could be that way, then pushing self and others towards that finish line! In Iceland 99% of its electricity comes from geothermal energy- meaning that they dig holes into the earth till they get to where it is "hot" then pour water in it, and like magic they get steam! We act as if we do not know that this could work, we act as if we don't have the science to solve our energy problems, when in truth if we can help other countries design systems that deliver energy at 1.72 cents per kilawatt hour vs the 9.63 cents we get out of petroleum then WE could do it for our own country as well! The only thing that STOPS us, is that WE DON"T HAVE TO!
For the record I will take the salad please, hold the oil, and maybe some steamed vegies!

Very Warm Regards,
Tammie L Anderson Coffey
Author, researcher, poet

Another effect is the increase in cost of products that use petroleum as one of the ingredients.

I agree we should make development of alternative fuels a top priority - along with technology that reduces fuel consumption. We need to demand that the auto manufacturers produce vehicles that are much more fuel efficient. The technology is available. There is no reason we should accept anything less.