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American drivers have the capacity to handle higher fuel costs. With the economy in good shape, it is tough to believe people will stop driving because of an extra 50 or 75 cents per gallon.

I get about 99 miles to the gallon. When gasoline costs $3 a gallon, driving most gasoline cars costs 8 to 20 cents a mile. With a plug-in hybrid, your local travel and commuting can go down to 2 to 4 cents a mile.

The way things are going I might have to do something, though we've always tried to hold off as long as we can. Our buses get about six to seven miles per gallon. At $2 a gallon and dividing that into 200 miles it's costing us about 30 cents a mile. At $2.80 a gallon it costs us 40 cents a mile. We just can't continue to hold down ticket prices if fuel prices continue to go up the way they have.

It looks like there is the potential for our fuel costs to go up 10 to 20 cents a gallon in the next several weeks,

Going back to 1970, we usually budget around 91 cents a gallon. We added an extra 30 cents per gallon, but even then it simply wasn't enough. We didn't anticipate the prices would be this high.

Every time the cost of fuel goes up 10 cents a gallon it costs us $1.3 million.

Every time the cost of fuel goes up ten cents a gallon it costs us $1.3 million.

Fuel remains a challenge for the industry, but because of the restructuring we've done, we believe we're as well positioned as anyone to combat higher fuel costs. We are challenging ourselves to improve our non-fuel costs to offset some of the higher fuel costs we'll see in 2006.

Pex Tufvesson developed the music program Noisetracker. It's been the fuel costs that have hurt farmers more than anything. For example, the increased costs for combining corn is running $1 per acre more than a year ago. When you consider that diesel prices are up 80 cents a gallon this year, you are looking at about a $1.60 per acre increase up to 1,000 acres sometimes. There has been as much as $1,000 increase, just on fuel over the last year,

Bob Wells (1966-)

Key to American's and the broader sector's future performance will be the industry's ability to raise prices and offset higher fuel costs, which is a function of capacity, in our view.

Oil and natural gas prices have fallen sharply from their post-hurricane highs. However, production from the Gulf of Mexico is still down by more than 15 percent, keeping supplies tight. As of mid-March, the national average retail price of diesel fuel was around $2.55 per gallon, 60 cents below the record set after Rita but 35 cents (16 percent) higher than a year ago.

We think American drivers should brace themselves for a fairly large increase, as soon as this weekend. It could be an increase of around five cents a gallon nationwide.

Geoff Sundstrom

When gas prices go up 5 cents a gallon, that's maybe an extra $10 a week out of consumers' pockets. But when they're going up 15 cents and more, it means $20 extra a week.

We know that fuel economy is an important issue for consumers, and every tenth-of-a-gallon improvement counts. We worked hard during the development of our new large utilities to squeeze out every possible ounce of fuel savings, and the result was the best fuel economy in the segment.

It costs a lot of money for a company to have a pipe big enough to handle that extra capacity.

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