The worst is about to happen.
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The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 4:49:48 PM
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Lizardbreath
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At the rate diesel prices are I can only wait in horror for the day when the truckers go on strike nationwide and our economy hits the ****ter.
Who here thinks we are a ticking time bomb?
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 4:52:28 PM
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theyve been "going to strike" for what, 2 years now?
screw them..another labor union screwing this country. let them bury themselves just like the union autoworkers are....
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 4:58:53 PM
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brian1570
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man all i know is that something has to give...i dont know what is gonna give yet but i hope it ends in lower gas prices
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 5:13:42 PM
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brian1570
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yeah the shipping co.s raise their price to pay for fuel therefore prices on shipped goods goes up to compensate...long story short the price of everything goes up.
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 5:32:53 PM
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Im a former truck driver, and my dad owns his own trucking company, the prices really havent affected us
and theres two types of drivers,
those that own and maintain(pay for ALL expenses) their own trucks and companies hire them to deliver loads, these are 'owner-operators'
then those that work for a company and they dont worry about anything on the truck, the company pays for all expenses, they just get in and drive, we call them 'drivers'
then these are divided into two types of loads, short-haul(usually a day trip) and 48 states(upto 3-4 weeks driving)
the ones REALLY hurting are the small owner-operators that do long hauls, since they can do a limited number of hauls at a time but fuelprices have cut DEEP into their net profit per haul
we(our trucks) get fuel from Mexico where its 2.10 a gallon, we fitted our trucks with extra fuel tanks(150gal capacity) and sell the fuel to other trucks at around 3.50/gal, which factoring in the cost of transporting the extra fuel comes out to a dollar profit per gallon x 150 gal = a nice little bonus 
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 5:43:16 PM
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hmmm intresting on the using mexican fuel. wouldnt they consider it illegal selling the fuel like that?
who? the govnt? the same ones telling you you have to pay taxes even though theres no law you have to pay?
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RE: The worst is about to happen. - 4/24/2008 5:52:16 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: 86 5.0L
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ORIGINAL: rmodel65
hmmm intresting on the using mexican fuel. wouldnt they consider it illegal selling the fuel like that?
who? the govnt? the same ones telling you you have to pay taxes even though theres no law you have to pay?
exellent Idea 86.
the government has been doing an awesome job at sucking knob lately....
hell I bet noone on capital hill really cares about the crisis, all they do is cram the idea of buying hybrid cars or flexfuel crap down our necks...
Ethanol is well, a very stupid idea/concept....
I put 20 bucks in my car today at 3.56... and it got me less than half a tank....
premium down near me is over 4 dollars....
its only a matter of time before gas stations begin getting held up for fuel...
unless its already happened....
something is going to fall in the future... but what?
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