Thread: $2 Gas Prices Send Truckers Across the Border

$2 Gas Prices Send Truckers Across the Border

Last Update: 4/24 8:03 am



Diesel prices now reach a record high of $4.00 a gallon and it is devastating independent truckers and forcing some to stop work.

UCAN gas analyst, Charles Langley says, "At $4.34 a gallon, which is what diesel costs in San Diego, it's simply unaffordable"

Some truckers are diving south where diesel is just over $2.00 and truckers say that the high gas prices are forcing them to go outside of the country to buy fuel to survive.

Langley says that a trucker could save an extra $500 to $1000 to fill up their tank and come back over the border.

With the price of diesel $4.25 here and two-bucks cheaper across the border, you would think it's a no brainer but it's not that easy.

Mexican permits can take time to get, but independent truck drivers say that they have no choice.

Abel Gonzalez, a trucker says that he will pay at least $1000 a truck for Mexican permits; he says that it's the only way that he will stay in business.

Gonzalez says that with each truck he can save $500 a trip and on the first two fills he can make back that money he spent.

When we asked gas analyst, Charles Langley, why a country like Mexico can have cheaper gas, Langley answered very simply, “Mexico has price control."

www.fox6.com

Can they drive empty gas tanker trucks over the border and fill the tankers?

Gas prices around the world

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/ ... gasprices/

Think you pay a lot for gas? Perhaps you'd prefer to live in Venezuela.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Gasoline prices in the United States, which have recently hit record highs, are actually much lower than in many countries. Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S.

The main factor in price disparities between countries is government policy, according to AirInc, a company that tracks the cost of living in various places around the world. Many European nations tax gasoline heavily, with taxes making up as much as 75 percent of the cost of a gallon of gasoline, said a spokesperson for AirInc.

In a few Latin America and Middle-East nations, such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, oil is produced by a government-owned company and local gasoline prices are kept low as a benefit to the nation's citizens, he said. All prices updated March, 2005.

Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon
Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

Source: air-inc.com

Interesting post MadInChicago, thank you.
Have heard Europe has paid much higher prices than us for years.