You guys gripe and moan about the diesel prices and some even quit driving their trucks, as in the above post. No offense meant here, but saving by not driving isn't really saving at all. I watched a lot of people sell and buy "gas miser" cars in order to "save" money by not driving their trucks only to realize they weren't really saving that much and then finding themselves stuck with the cars they don't want and can't really use. Just tired of hearing people whine about it. Just drive and don't think about it all the time because the fact is, you can do NOTHING. All the truckers always threaten to go on strike and shut the nation down, blah blah blah, but they NEVER do. Unless we are REALLY REALLY willing to do that and over run fuel companies, all we can do is whine, and that gets us no where except making us looking like sniveling wienies. And, no, I am not independently wealthy and can easily afford it. My point is, it isn't going to change, no matter how mad I get, unless we are willing to band together and DO something. Yeah, it was cheaper than the cheapest gas like 7-10 years ago. And coke was only a nickel like 50 years ago, but we can't change that either. So, either drive and enjoy or sell and regret. Either way, it stays the same.

 

There is some fact in what is being said by BBTexas.

The oil companies try to keep max capacity at all times. They have the US market to sell in. If they have a lot of over stock and want to, they can put it in a common pool called the Spot Market. Then its distributed throughout the US to anyone that wants it. If needed, (rarely), they can sell it overseas to other countries, still making profit. Either way, they usually don't loose.

Now, to help some what lower the prices, drive a bit less, using less fuel, having them with higher reserves and they tend to lower prices some, not much, to sell locally.

This is hard to do since most people love to drive for no reason at all. Like the lady in California who puts her infant to sleep driving her SUV around the city.

Just drive what you have to, keep it running up to par with proper maintenance and buy using good sense.

 

OHMMMMMMMMMMM......LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE......OHMMMMMMMMMMMM....

....ain't workin'.

 

BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA.....just like a Californian to want to meditate the problem away. I can say that being from CA.

 

Your comment that trucking company's pass the cost on ya right they do and make the money but as a o/o bs we get nothing in fact we are told to do it for LESS...................

 

They say it's more expensive now that they have to process all the sulfur out of it.
But it always goes up in the winter because Jet A, Diesel, Kero and HOME HEATING OIL all are the same basic fraction of crude. So when more demand for the HHO comes on with the cold, less diesel can be made and less suppy equals higher prices.

 

If the fuel surcharge worked as intended that wouldn't be a problem . Right now carriers are required to give O/O's 100% of the FSC . Other carriers and brokers give what they feel like .
Some expedite carriers give preferred customers a discounted FSC . This more or less has the O/O's paying a fee to haul that shipper's load .

 

One could make the argument that our fuel costs are held artificially low since the costs of maintaining the miltary in the middle east to ensure the free flow of oil is not factored into a gallon of fuel.

 

Since we went off the gold standard in 1971 the dollar has become really a fiat currency which is open to manipulation of its value by printing and borrowing.. there is no peg to a standard at all. Its value drops as more dollars are printed but also as our credit drops.. which is related to how much debt the country carries. Essentially it is an invisible tax and it devalues every dollar you own. Most people do not grasp this concept and only feel rising prices, which really arent rising prices at all.. just the lower worth of the currency they are using.
Historically, the dollar was intended to NOT be a fiat currency, in part to make sure this burden was visible as direct taxation and thus the people would protest unpopular spending.