I flirted with the idea of becoming an owner-operator a few years ago when diesel was US$2/US Gal. Now diesel is hovering at about US$.50/US Gal more than Gasoline in any given market
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. Unless I can find a place to hide a cast-off water heater in my condo, and get a hook-up on lye and used fryer oil for making my own biodiesel, it looks like I'm keeping my happy butt behind the wheel of a company rig.
Re governments and oil companies, the rest of the world is now coming closer to the commercial driver's awareness of the grotesque inadequacies of both. The sad truth of matters is that the more obstacles placed between consumer and producer from all sources...of all goods and services...the greater the sacrifice made at both extremes.
What a fustercluck.