
04.23.2008
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| Diesel prices putting state’s smaller trucking firms on endangered list Diesel prices putting state’s smaller trucking firms on endangered list 4/23/08 Quote:
With diesel fuel well over $4 a gallon, Wisconsin’s smaller trucking companies wonder how much longer they can keep going.
Harold Grimes of Green Bay says it’s costing $1,250 to keep each of his 20 rigs on the road for a day and a-half. At that price, he just can’t make it.
Grimes gives his business about three months to live, and he says others like him are in the same boat.
Meanwhile, Green Bay convenience store owner Tom Matusak says he knows station owners who want to band together and turn off their pumps for a week, saying it might throw more oil into the industry.
There’s a move in Congress to stop adding to the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Rep. Steve Kagen, D-Appleton, says it would put more oil on the market, and reduce the price of gas by 25 cents a gallon.
Grimes and Matusak say it would only be a temporary fix. They say we really need a new energy policy with more domestic oil drilling and new refineries. http://www.newrichmond-news.com/arti...property_id=19 | |