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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 08:53 PM
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Think YOUR gasoline bills are high? $3.8 million for a fill-up!
Edited on Sat Jun-28-08 08:53 PM by fiziwig
According to an article in the LA Times, it costs $3.8 million dollars to top off the fuel tanks in a container ship traveling from China to L.A.

Say goodbye to Wal-Mart.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil28-2008jun28,0,5808547,full.story
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 08:55 PM
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1. Happily ba by.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 08:56 PM
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2. Thank goodness Amory Lovins is diversified into dangerous fossil fuel companies.
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Andy823 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 09:09 PM
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3. I wonder how long
It will take all those asshole corporations that closed shop here and went to China to figure out they should have stayed? I have already read about a few of them coming back because the cost of shipping is so high now.
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-28-08 09:41 PM
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4. The world is getting hilly?
"To put things in perspective, today's extra shipping cost from East Asia is the equivalent of imposing a 9% tariff on East Asian goods entering North America," said Rubin of CIBC World Markets. "At $200 per barrel, the tariff equivalent rate will rise to 15%."
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-29-08 12:44 AM
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5. I was in several Dollar General Stores
Edited on Sun Jun-29-08 12:45 AM by janeaustin
last week, looking for a couple of things.

They had many empty shelves.

Imagine having to pay a fortune to have plastic pitchers shipped that you are only going to sell for a dollar.
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