Expensive Fuel Changes Transportation Industry
635 views · Published 10 September 2008 · 4:14 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · Autos & Vehicles
As rising fuel costs drive up the cost of transportation, the transportation industry itself is being forced to change. America's biggest carmaker is closing factories where its largest vehicles are made, expanding plants that build small cars. Airlines are raising fares, cutting services, merging with other airlines or going bankrupt. On the other hand, railways are in greater demand.From Kent Klein VOA News.