Oct-28-2018 03:46 PM
Oct-30-2018 03:00 AM
gitane59 wrote:
,,, Curious to know whether ship engines can switch back and forth between ULSD and heavy bunker oil.
Oct-29-2018 06:37 PM
Oct-29-2018 03:59 PM
Oct-29-2018 09:18 AM
DutchmenSport wrote:Fuel companies don't need a reason to raise prices. They can set their prices at any amount. Prices are kept in line by competition. Set them too high and the other suppliers will swoop in and take all their business. If the company gets so big that they quash the competition the anti-monopoly laws break them up. This happened in the oil business to Standard Oil. If they conspire together to fix prices, the conspirators can go to jail. Because of this you can be reasonably assured prices are competitive and fair. That is the beauty of free enterprise and the safeguards built into the system. Yes, many companies try to explain the extraneous factors (like that dead mouse that led Bangladeshi' elephants to stop working forcing Bangladeshi construction firms to switch over to diesel fueled construction equipment raising worldwide demand for oil;)) that are effecting pricing, but they are not under any obligation to do so.
The oil companies will use ANY excuse to raise fuel prices. This just sounds like another excuse so it gives some kind of legitimization to pre-condition us into accepting yet another price hike in our future.
It doesn't make any sense, a mouse is found dead in Bangladesh and it raises fuel prices in Indiana! Yet, they do this all the time for reasons just as ridiculous.
Oct-29-2018 06:41 AM
Oct-29-2018 06:30 AM
SidecarFlip wrote:
It is what it is. Glad I run off road diesel in the farm equipment. I agree ocean going ships are BIG polluters.
Oct-29-2018 06:13 AM
theoldwizard1 wrote:
There was discussion of doing this on the Great Lakes. All the shipping companies said they would just park their ships because the cost of replacing the engine was not feasible.
Oct-29-2018 03:25 AM
Oct-28-2018 11:18 PM
Oct-28-2018 07:47 PM
Oct-28-2018 07:30 PM
theoldwizard1 wrote:
There was discussion of doing this on the Great Lakes. All the shipping companies said they would just park their ships because the cost of replacing the engine was not feasible.
Oct-28-2018 06:24 PM
theoldwizard1 wrote:
There was discussion of doing this on the Great Lakes. All the shipping companies said they would just park their ships because the cost of replacing the engine was not feasible.
Oct-28-2018 06:16 PM
Oct-28-2018 05:51 PM