Want to guess which sector of the American economy has been hit hardest by increasing fuel prices? Nope, not the airlines. Nope, not the individual car owner. Nope, not even Nascar. The biggest hit has been felt by the trucking industry which is the heart and soul and blood circulation of American commerce.
How much of an upheaval is being caused to truckers and trucking companies by the rapid increase in fuel costs?
Last week the national diesel fuel price average, as tracked by the U.S. Department of Energy, was $4.497, up 16 cents from a week earlier and $1.15 or 34 percent higher than the Jan. 1 price
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. Under ordinary circumstances these regulations get stretched and truckers are on coffee intravenous and work extended hours driving on our roads and highways. 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.
WATER4GAS is sharing information for a nominal fee which individuals can use at home to put together a small device which instills hydrogen into the gas/air mixture that their car or truck runs on.
The process makes bite sized particles out of the ones that the system burns as fuel. Therefore the engine gets to use considerably more of the gasoline.
By doing this you can reasonably expect to improve your fuel economy by thirty to fifty percent or significantly more. Those molecules must have been pretty "blankin'" big in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made consumable so you can improve your fuel economy.
It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner.
This package of info has been purchased by over 10s of thousands of people already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?
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