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A portent of things to come:

"As the price of fuel has risen dramatically over the past year, UPS has worked diligently to maintain normal pricing for customers. We have succeeded for quite some time, but the sustained high level of fuel costs now is significantly impacting our cost to serve you.

We had hoped to avoid any surcharge indefinitely, but we are now forced to implement a temporary 1.25% fuel surcharge on all Air, Ground and International packages tendered to UPS on or after August 7, 2000."



Car 25 to 50 gross ton miles per gallon
Airliner 60 to 65 gross ton miles per gallon
Bus 110 to 120 gross ton miles per gallon
Truck/18 wheeler 120 to 200 gross ton miles per gallon
Train 750 gross ton miles per gallon
The larger the number, the greater the energy efficiency. For comparison, a two ton car would have to get 375 miles per gallon to equal the energy efficiency of a train.

thanks to James A. Hellams for this chart

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