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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 much of an upheaval is being caused to truckers and trucking companies by the rapid increase in fuel costs? 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 catastrophe for the truckers is hurting every other aspect of the American economy and beyond. 3/4s of consumables are moved to the consumers in America by trucks. How else are you going to get lobster to Kansas for instance? . As a consequence, then, of the increase in costs for the trucking industry, just about everything else will have an increase in price beyond what it would be just accounting for inflation. The price of food is one area where the price increase has already started and it is linked in part to the increase in the cost of diesel. Another place where the impact is felt is highway fatalities. Truckers do have strict regulations on how many hours they can drive and how many hours they have to rest in between. 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 want to maintain anything close to the lifestyle that we have enjoyed in previous years 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 providing information for a nominal fee which people can use in their garage or wherever to put together a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their automobile runs on. The process makes bite sized particles out of the ones that the system burns as fuel. So the engine gets to use much more of the fuel. With WATER4GAS you can minimumly expect to improve your gas performance by 30-50% or even more. Those goblets "musta" been pretty darn huge in some engines before. But with WATER4GAS they are made consumable so you can improve your gas performance. It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner. This package of info has been purchased by over 10s of thousands of car owners already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?
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