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Want to guess which sector of the American economy has been hit hardest by increasing fuel prices? Nope, not the airlines. Nope, not the individual car owner. Nope, not even Nascar. The biggest hit has been felt by the trucking industry which is the heart and soul and blood circulation of American commerce. How hard is the trucking industry being hit? Last week the national diesel fuel price average, as tracked by the U.S. Department of Energy, was $4.497, up 16 cents from a week earlier and $1.15 or 34 percent higher than the Jan. 1 price The number of trucking companies filing for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2008 was up 1/5th from the first quarter of 2007 at almost one thousand companies This hit on the trucking industry is felt in every other sector. Seventy percent of the goods that Americans consume are trafficked from manufacturers to outlets to consumers by trucks. And this means that the price of all of these items is going to rise beyond just the rise from high inflation and many have already seen huge jumps in prices Go to the supermarket and you will already see this impact. Food prices are being hit by inflation, the artificial scarcity brought on by the shift of growing crops for food to growing crops for energy and the increased costs for the truckers to move food to the supermarket shelves. Another place where the impact is felt is highway fatalities. There are regulations that truckers are supposed to follow as to how long a duration they can be out on the road driving and how long that they have to rest in between shifts. Under ordinary circumstances these regulations get stretched and truckers are on coffee intravenous and work extended hours driving on our roads and highways. What is happening now, though, is that less financially stable trucking companies are going bankrupt which means that more load is having to be handled by fewer companies and less truckers. Truckers are also willing to work longer hours because they are making less profit per hour. So, in a very direct way, the increased price of diesel is costing lives right here in the USA. This is in addition to the lost lives due to biodiesel worldwide because of the shift from growing crops for food to growing crops for energy. Those number in the 10s of millions dieing from starvation and is a hushed up holocaust happening right now. The havoc caused by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve policies over the last eight years is going to be with us for decades. If we desire to live anything close to the lifestyle that the last number of generations have enjoyed in this country going into the future then we need to get creative on the grassroots level with real solutions disseminated in the fastest way possible, which right now is the internet. One such solution is Water4Gas. WATER4GAS is sharing information for a nominal fee which individuals can use at home to put together a small device which infuses hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their automobile runs on. What this does is make bite sized particles out of the particles that the system uses as fuel. So the engine gets to use much more of the gasoline. By doing this you can reasonably expect to lower your gas usage by 30-50% or even more. Those particles "musta" been pretty darn huge in some engines before. But with W4G they are made consumable so you can lower your gas usage. It also helps make emissions significantly cleaner. This package of info has been purchased by over 10s of 1000s of individuals already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?
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Songwriter, entrepreneur, consumer advocate and activist, GARKO, recommends Water-For-gas technology as the best solution for way to increase gas mileage and as an alternative in cheap gas solutions For a list of current gas prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info
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