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I'm going to the Apostles in Lake Superior. It is 308 miles and will cost me about $137 in Tahoe gas. Ah, the price of adventure.



Course, I usually send the admiral in to settle-up.

Gas prices to me (and most people by the looks of this articel) are like the weather, we like to talk and complain about it, but there isn't much we can do about it and we just live our lives despite of it. Now this is on a personal side, on a business side like trucking, shipping, ect, it digs into the bottom line and end the end gets past on to us the consumer.

At least we own a sailboat, with powering capabilities not a powerboat, if I did, I would have my underwear up for a sail to save on fuel costs.

Rich

Just make sure to clean the skid marks out of the underwear first or it can detract from your sail's full potential...

Speaking of underwear, I thought this would be just the thing for us sailors:

Disposable Underwear

With OneDerWear you don't have to worry about repacking dirty underwear

Or worry about finding your cleanest pair of dirty underwear.

Or worry about going to the hospital if you get hurt on your Mac.

There are times I wouldn't mind getting a tank full of that premium!!!

DLT wrote:There are times I wouldn't mind getting a tank full of that premium!!!

I hear ya man, I hear ya!!

Rich and lori wrote

on a business side like trucking, shipping, ect, it digs into the bottom line and end the end gets past on to us the consumer.

Fuel only digs into the bottom line if the owner does check book accounting until he's broke.

Good operators monitor the cost of doing business and YES, Pass it along to the consumer.

Marks $137 of fuel will push one of my trucks around town for about 1/2 day doing local deliveries.

To top off one of our trucks that is close to empty costs around $450 That will push a truck down the highway for about 1225 miles. Thats about .36c per mile. That same trip will pay an average of around $1450. At a current base surcharge of 21% thats a surcharge of around $301.

On Edit: Those figures are For line haul rating (1 way with reload) what that means is that will get your freight 612.5 miles from its point of origin unless there is a tie in reload within a reasonable distance.

I used to fill it up and get the full car wash.

Now I fill it up and they can kiss my dirty rear bumper.

However, people need to realize that there are some major gasoline production and delivery issues that are driving costs up. There are supply realities that China is causing. Yes there are some pirates making a killing, but there are USA regulatory restrictions that have a direct correlation to gas prices. When you have different counties in California requiring different fuel standards, and refineries have to shut down and reset for different blends, then you drive costs up. Tree huggers are driving cost needlessly.

$12 in gas to mow my lawn! Can you imagine that? I'm going to let the grass grow a bit.

For those who sail, gas is just a fraction of our cost.

For those who have to tow long distances, and choose to replenish 9-12 gallon tanks along the way, there may be some hesitation.

I really dont envy you guys who have to get up and turn your ignition key every morning.

Got a son-in-law who invested in a nifty 15 speed and now beats his old time to work..

Environmental controls cost money, true. But, there is no way I would want to go back to the air quality of the 1970s in our cities and even towns now.

Lots of counties/cities/states requiring different blends does seem inefficient I agree. Still, a federal manadate seems like the logical solution, until you look at that track record....

SJB;

Killing two birds with one stone here. Since there is a "water shortage" here, I've been doing my part to save water by letting the lawn go brown, and thus, don't have to mow it Gives me more time on the weekend for things I rather be doing, like sailing!

I have posted this idea from a local DJ before. If we all stop going to one major gas station such as Chevron, we could control the market. The oil companies are making a killing right now with huge profits. How come? Why are our law makers allowing this greed. They get the oil free from our ground. A profit, sure, but not that it wrecks our economy. We should nationalize our resources.

Gas price in Saskatoon Sask Canada....$5.08 gallon

We should nationalize our resources.

Yes, because the government is so good at managing such things. Besides, it's worked so well in other countries which have done it.

They get the oil free from our ground

Im a commie pinko liberal tree hugger....but I suspect it does cost a few bucks to get oil from Saudi Arabia, put it onto a tanker, ship it over here, deliver it to a refinery, refine it to one of the many blends required by different areas, put it in a pipeline, deliver it to a tank, put it on a truck, deliver it to my station so I always have it on Saturday when I tank up.

I dont have too many family ties in the Middle east that Im aware of, so I cant claim too much of the ground there either.

YMMV