[Orangetxguy]

Originally Posted by Ian Williams

At some point it makes sense to start buying soybean oil at $2.65/gallon and making your own biodiesel. A 35lb (4.6 Gal) is $11.99 at Costco.

There is a $1/gal Federal Tax credit for making it from a virgin feedstock.

Heck if you have an older mechanical injection diesel you can run it straight in warmer weather as long as the oil is pre-heated.

:shock: Lord...not another one. :roll:

[Evinrude]

I have said it before and I will say it again. The easiest way drivers could help them-self's is to stop Training new drivers. Eventually carriers that rely on rookies that haul freight cheap will dry up and rates will rise.

[ds18rollin8]

Lets face it, oil prices may be up alittle, but you also have to take into account that the us dollar value is extremely low. If the dollar wasn't so low then we would probably be paying around $80 a barrel. What good is a strike going to do when its scattered throughout the country, it something that needs to be thought out and done properly. I had heard a good idea the other day, and the person had said that if we did do a strike that an ideal place would be around the beltway of DC, just for the simple fact of then we would get some attention and some of these idiot politicians might take notice. I know that some of you disagree, but just a thought.
Be safe

[Sonny Pruitt]

slow down

[SoCal79]

Take the squeegies (sp?) and all the paper towels you can carry. Thats what I do at least I feel like I am getting more for my $4.09 a gallon. I always wondered it was $3.89 one day then the next morning the same station was up to $4.09 what happened to the cheaper fuel that was still in the underground tanks ? They cant be completly empty or was the new price $4.50 and they averaged it down when blended with the lower priced stuff? Wishful thinking huh. Higher prices are here to stay, instead of working on getting fuel prices down we need to focus on getting the rates up, way up.

[solo379]

Originally Posted by Sonny Pruitt

slow down

Nah! That would make sense;-therefore is not an option! :lol:

[no_worries]

Socal's got it. What do we do about high fuel prices? Charge more :roll:

[rank]

Originally Posted by Sonny Pruitt

slow down

Sonny' right. Slowing down is all you can do. Unless you have some of reward credit card.

I managed to get a $.085/gallon volume discount from Husky Oil....bu that's only $300/month savings.

I figured out the other day that by slowing down 5 mph, I can save $.17/gallon on the price of fuel due to increased fuel mileage. Or something like that.

But I still get my doors blown off every day, so I guess fuel is still cheap.

[RostyC]

I did a no-no yesterday, I took a ride in my diesel powered toy truck. Just a short one but none the less, I was consuming fuel.ops: I swore I wouldn't use any unnecessary fuel but I had to get out yesterday.

Any who, when I got out on 81, the big trucks were blowing by me. I was doing 65. I agree with rank, I guess fuel is still cheap. That also goes for the majority of 4 wheelers. I've slowed down in whatever I'm driving and am getting my doors blown off. I think diesel is going to go to six bucks before this is all over.

[Evinrude]

Originally Posted by RostyC

I did a no-no yesterday, I took a ride in my diesel powered toy truck. Just a short one but none the less, I was consuming fuel.ops: I swore I wouldn't use any unnecessary fuel but I had to get out yesterday.

Any who, when I got out on 81, the big trucks were blowing by me. I was doing 65. I agree with rank, I guess fuel is still cheap. That also goes for the majority of 4 wheelers. I've slowed down in whatever I'm driving and am getting my doors blown off. I think diesel is going to go to six bucks before this is all over.

Yes, the USA has the cheapest fuel om the plant.