How will the price of diesel effect you?

Question

So i just filled up my truck: $123. thats only 26 gallons a $4.74!!!!! a gallon.

I know farmers don't pay road tax, but what do you pay per gallon? Will the price of diesel effect you in any way? If you're filling up a 1000 gallons at a time......what can you do? Will you run veggie oil?

Answer 1

I have a very close friend/fellow church member that is having to sell his privately owned "big rig" cause he can not make enough profit on his "runs" to afford the diesel, and his whole purpose in buying hisown rig to begin with was to make a better profit instead of the trucking companys getting the majority of the profit. He is facing major changes in his whole life, including giving up his dream job of being an independent trucker. That affects me cause it hurst to see someone have to make such a bigt sacrifice that will affect his whole life, family and all. Me and my hubbie used to own a small farm. We used diesel in 2 of our tractors. 4 years ago we saw the "handwriting on the wall" and sold the farm, cause the cost of diesel and all necessary oil -related products was eating up our very SMALL income. And we are only in our mid-50's. GOD help those who's livelygood depends on anything conected to the oil companies!!!

Answer 2

We saw the change coming and cut back on tillage use of fuel 20 years ago, when we went to no-till farming. Our neighbor who is all organic is struggling because his operation still uses a lot of power to do mechanical weeding.

We are close to a moderately large city, so it costs us less to get food to the local market. Unfortunately, however we have lost our local market. Everything is trucked off to distant places ant then trucked back again. This may force some local farmers to try to rebuild the local market.

Answer 3

The sharp rise in fuel cost will affect everyone. Much of the cost of food is the added expense of fuel for farming, fuel to bring harvests together at the wholesale market, then transport to processing  and/ or then to a retail for you to pick them up and use them. That is a minimum. All the labor of all these steps is cost of living based and proportional increases so workers can attend to their duties will soon be added to the end consumer. Items that are air freight or long haul or imported by ship get more costly and those too are paid for one way or another by the end user. All services go up because of fuel dependence and all manufacturing energy needes go up in cost. All items that require heat, machines, and chemicals that are petroleum based go up. It cost more just to go to work and some in the work force will even have to find alternative employment to make ends meet. Others will have to put in longer hours in jobs with cut-backs just to maintain status-quo. Farmers do pay road tax, sometimes directly but always indirectly as they settle for a lower price for what is now more costly to produce in an attempt by buyers to write off additional costs. Consumers will pay the rest. Business is not going to take the bite and business knows how to pass the buck. That is the nature of business. The best way to counter this is to produce as much as you can yourself in terms of food and also when possible in fuels. Keep all needs met by supporting only local production of anything and everything. Science always attemps to give us answers but for all that we need to learn how to limit some things and do without others. We should be keeping foods local in distribution from the farm, and items taken for granted, like bananas and oranges in the north (as example) need to be consumed as luxury items. Cost will soon make it seem like that and our being reasonable and responsible about what we buy and when will be the difference in grocery bills as they were compared to how they are and should be. Government intervention will take place when things are disturbed to the point that they can not be ignored but beyond that we as a people need to understand that we are not powerless. Class is not over though until the unenlightened few realize that they have an obligation to do what is right and stop sitting on their opulent arses making those pitiful whinning sounds. Government needs to be pro-active and get a grip on our screwed up system of import and export. And please, this whole diversion of food and land use for inferior ethanol fuel is helping no one but those with one hand in the till and the other in their pants (pockets)?

Answer 4

Everything in this country is transported on a truck.  Inflation is totally out of control and until the price at least stabilize, it will continue.