Unca Joel is right about the fuel; my husband is an owner/operator and his
fuel bill went up $1,000 in one month.  This my first month back driving a
TDI so I have yet to figure my monthly cost now that diesel is over
$4.00/gallon.  I had the unfortunate $831 bill for almost, not quite, one
month of commuting with a Syncro.  (I sold one TDI and kept the one that
belonged to my parents, which is unfortunate too since it still has problems
I've yet to sort out.  I'm beginning to hate the poor, unfortunate, unwanted
TDI Bug.  I can see why VW lost customers during that period; maybe they
still do.)  The actual point I started out to make is that, as Unca Joel
noted, everything you deal with in daily life is touched by fuel costs in
some way, so expect everything to continue to go up.

Donna, 87 syncro (sorry for the TDI Bug whining - I really am beginning to
detest the thing but unless I find employment closer to home, I am stuck
with it, and I still have to commute to school at night.)
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu> wrote:

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> and remember this:
> all the food you eat, all the magazines and newspapers
> you read, everything that you spend money on, involves
> either gasoline or diesel fuel. even if it comes on a train
> or plane, it takes fuel. and the more that fuel costs,
> the more they are gonna pass that cost on to you.
> i've never yet seen a company decide to make LESS profit
> when they could raise prices and pass the higher costs
> on to the customer.
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> if i were a betting man, i'd bet on much higher prices by
> September ... higher prices on everything. including the
> water that comes out of your faucets ... i used to work
> for the water works (digging ditches, remember) and we used
> a lot of gasoline and diesel fuel. and all our pipe and
> supplies were delivered by trucks or trains, both of which
> used a lot of diesel fuel.
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> unca joel
> <the only reason i'm hanging around is
> to see what the hell happens next!> ;)
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