[Ten Hammers]

One of the issues with increasing fuel costs is the price of LP for gas forges. Maintaining product prices ( with steel up as well ) is more than a challenge. Passing the whole of the increases on to customers is not possible. Maintaining volume with decreased precentage is a highway towards eventual failure and I don't have any other way to describe it. Last year a 100 lb bottle was roughly 30 bucks to fill ( 23 gallon ). This year it is over 60 bucks. This of course is not including the price of Natural gas to heat the house in the winter. Wood heat will be the only answer. BTW a friend from Civil War is set up next to me at the County Fair this year and he asked me how big of a carbon footprint I make ( laughing ). I said I AM a carbon footprint. If we do not start producing oil in this country immediately we are in a death spiral. Some do not like to hear these facts but they are the facts. Currently 63º F on a nice July morning in Midwest USA. Climates cycle and change as time goes by. 25 years ago the talking heads were worrying about a new ice age. Many have fallen into the current rage about warming. Sorry for the rant but these foolish thoughts will be our economic downfall.