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Originally posted by Aerkuld
Do you get to deduct the tax on the fuel expenditure?
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No, and the costs easily add an additional 10-15 percent to the overall cost of a given project--in the past several years, crane companies have even added a straight "fuel surchage percentage" to their bills--with is usually between 6-8 percent of the total invoice cost. Add in the increases in freight to get materials to projects, the increase in keeping manlifts/forktrucks/generators/welding machines fueled, and the travel costs to get men to and from the projects and the money gets serious--especially on the larger projects.
Meanwhile oil companies are making all-time RECORD PROFITS each quarter, everytime there is an inkling of a perceived threat to refineries and/or oil fields(be it man-made or weather-related) the price of both oil and gasoline immeadiately increases. Yet when the threat passes, notice how long it takes for those prices to decrease to the pre-threat levels--which they usually do not even reach. And nobody who is in a true position of power who can affect these practices does a thing.--CAHOOTS! CAHOOTS I say.
