The economy has been hit hard in so many ways by the increase in gas and diesel prices but nowhere has it been hit harder than in the trucking industry which is the lifeblood which keeps America circulating. Not the individual household, not the airline industry, nowhere has the impact been greater than on the trucking industry
How much of an upheaval is being caused to truckers and trucking companies by the rapid increase in fuel costs?
The national average price for diesel rose sixteen cents last week from the previous week and has gone up by 1/3rd just since the start of the year
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 hit on the trucking industry is felt in every other sector. 70% of the goods that Americans consume are moved about by trucks. As a consequence, then, of the increase in costs for the trucking industry, just about everything else will have an increase in price beyond what it would be just accounting for inflation. Go to the supermarket and you will already see this impact. Food prices are being hit by inflation, the artificial scarcity brought on by the shift of growing crops for food to growing crops for energy and the increased costs for the truckers to move food to the supermarket shelves.
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. Already, under more normal economic conditions, these regulations were routinely stretched. But now there are less trucking companies and less truckers carrying the same load so something’s gotta give somewhere. 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, in a very direct way, the increased price of diesel is costing lives right here in the USA. 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 devastation visited upon our economy by the Bush administration’s policies and wars as well as the Federal Reserve’s tinkering 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 providing information for a nominal fee which consumers can use at home to create a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their vehicle runs on.
The process makes bite sized particles out of the particles that the engine burns as fuel. So the engine gets to use considerably more of it.
By doing this you can minimumly expect to reduce your gas usage by 30-50% or significantly more. Those goblets "musta" been pretty darn big in some systems before. But with W4G they are made usable so you can reduce your gas usage.
It also helps to lower emissions significantly.
This information has been purchased by over 10s of thousands of people already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?
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