High diesel prices affecting area businesses
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Construction workers say the rising cost of fuel is putting a strain on business.
Eddie Walls with JPD Construction out of Bossier City says, “Sometimes we bid a job and it may be 90 to a 150 days before the job physically starts when you’ve got diesel fuel that goes up like it has the last 90 days you just about losing money when you get started.”
Walls says high fuel prices is causing the cost of some of their supplies to go up as well. “This bedding rock that we use that goes in the sewer has sky rocketed. The asphalt that we’ll be putting down on this street has sky rocketed, it’s all tied to fuel.”
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