"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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HoustonChronicle.com

April 19, 2006, 10:21PM

ENERGY
Rising crude oil prices splash over $72 a barrel
Fuel inventories fall, but consumer demand may slip
By BRAD FOSS
Associated Press



During my recent trip out to Denver and back, I started taking note of the
number of tractor trailers hauling stuff all over the country. In the early
mornings, every rest area, highway off and on ramp where full of trucks.
Several thousand of them all told, I would guess just on the route I took.
I can't imagine how many are running everyday, nationwide.

I started thinking about this, given that they average about 6 or 7 mpg. I
don't know, but I suspect the amount of fuel used per day in one of these
rigs would probably fuel a family car for a month or more.

We need a more efficient system for transporting goods, like railroads, but
to make a drastic change to the trucking industry would result in massive
unemployment and screaming in Washington by the trucking industry lobbiests.
So, again, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

RCE