Fuel increase ahead?
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Fuel increase ahead?
I can see it coming shortly...rigs and possibly refineries shut down due to Hurricane Harvey. Won't take long to see an increase in diesel and gasoline prices. I'd guess about a dime increase per gallon in the next week or two. Hope it won't happen but I see it in my crystal ball! 
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Local Shell station where I buy diesel is still $2.29...I'm sure the price will be rising shortly. It's a truck stop also so maybe they'll try to keep the price down. A local fuel distributor owns the station so they're picky about the fuel and the price. A lot of the trucks fueling up haul oil field supplies to Port Fourchon and loaded on huge offshore supply boats.
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during hurricane ike gas prices jumped up to 4.50 at some gas stations in Houston... crazy... I work for a chemical plant and we're still not sure if we are going to be made to ride the storm yet.. as of now its business as usual
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It's coming for sure in November anyway. Governor Moonbeam and the Krazy Kalifornia legislators raised the gas tax about 14 cents. AND they raised the excise tax on diesel too. That's a double-whammy on diesel fuel. And don't think for a minute that it'll only be in Kalifornia. This is another wave that will sweep across the USA. Once long-haul truckers start paying significantly higher diesel costs in Kalifornia they'll raise their rates and it'll affect everyone.
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It's coming for sure in November anyway. Governor Moonbeam and the Krazy Kalifornia legislators raised the gas tax about 14 cents. AND they raised the excise tax on diesel too. That's a double-whammy on diesel fuel. And don't think for a minute that it'll only be in Kalifornia. This is another wave that will sweep across the USA. Once long-haul truckers start paying significantly higher diesel costs in Kalifornia they'll raise their rates and it'll affect everyone.
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In New Orleans they want to go to the Superdome and get drunk and tear everything up. They steal everything they can carry out too.
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Oil companies and chemical plants pay good and have great benefits but in the end you are only a number on the payroll check. I worked many weekends...holidays and even during hurricanes when I worked for one of the major oil companies years ago. Getting to work and then getting home is your problem.
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