10-16-2006, 03:57 AM
Thing that really jacks my jaws about the cost of diesel is this. Even though diesel is considerably cheaper to produce the oil companies have the diesel market right by the short hairs. Over 95% of diesel use is by companies that can't do without it. If the oil companies get their gasoline prices too high people tend to drive less & the sales of gasoline diminish. Not so with the diesel users. If they don't buy it they don't go, a lot of our commerce stops and the poor diesel users go broke.
I can remember working in a service station in my home town about 50 years ago when gasoline was 39.9 cents a gallon for regular and 43.9 cents for Ethyl. At that time diesel was around 17 cents a gallon.
Look around your home & see if you can find anything that wasn't at some point handled by a truck on its way to you. Shockingly I couldn't find a thing. Guess the oil companies gots a painful grip somewhere on all of us.
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I can remember working in a service station in my home town about 50 years ago when gasoline was 39.9 cents a gallon for regular and 43.9 cents for Ethyl. At that time diesel was around 17 cents a gallon.
Look around your home & see if you can find anything that wasn't at some point handled by a truck on its way to you. Shockingly I couldn't find a thing. Guess the oil companies gots a painful grip somewhere on all of us.
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