Re: .9 cents worth

Nah...it's 0.1 cents per gallon...a little less than 0.3 cents on $10 at todays prices.

Made more difference when gas was 19.9 cents per gallon instead of 349.9 cents per gallon...

Let's see...I made $6/hr when gas was 45 cents per gallon - when $6/hr wasn't bad money. I make considerably more than that now...but I think my per hour income to per gallon gas price ratio hasn't increased all that much.

If I was starting out today with the same "career", I'd be making maybe $15/hr at the equivalent level of experience - but I'd now be paying roughly the same percentage of my per hour pay in gas *for 1 gallon* that I'd be paying in Federal income taxes. (Only my income would have gone up by a factor of 2-3 in a 30-yr span. You all know how much my expenses would have gone up in that same span)

"They" have us all over a barrel...


I believe the UPRR is the largest consumer of diesel - or perhaps the US Navy. (tongue-somewhat-in-cheek) Would it be more cost effective for the UPRR (and BNSF etc) to invest in their own oil fields/refineries? Bio-diesel won't cut it...