Great to see both of you guys. good morning. so, i d like thank you. i d like to hear how gas prices are affecting each of you. in the chicago area gas prices have increased 35% in the past year and nearly doubled in the past two years. in fact, many of our suppliers are passing these costs onto us with hefty fuel charges in the 20% to 30 % range. and are you passing those increase as long to your customers? well, we re all about helping people connect with flowers and we re doing everything we can to absorb those costs ourselves rather than pass them on. in fact, we haven t increased our local or nationwide delivery fees for more than four years. we re watching gas prices closely. we know we might have to increase delivery by a dollar here or there, but we are doing everything we can through new technology and good old fashioned hard work to keep those price down. what about you? we monitor gas prices fairly closely. delivery costs we see in the
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Egypt started, we saw oil go up to $91, $92. oil has been going higher since may 2010, and the higher the oil prices go, the more that eats into the airline revenues, so they wind up passing the cost onto us. there is a silver lining. the fuel charges can go away, too, it happened in 2008 when the fuel charges went down from $100 to $70 a barrel. now, it is your turn to choose the news. that s right. we will tell you about three stories, and you vote via text message the one you want to see in detail. these are the choices. pentecostal churches in cuba out of the shadows and on the rise. many cubans are turning to religion. also, a young woman searching for her biological roots finds
That s better than sticking on a price hike that s obvious to people and hurts their wallet immediately. if you can t figure out a way to increase your revenue and presumably you re thinking about ways to increase your revenue, if you can t in the near term, and this is hurting you, what s your thought about putting a surcharge on and saying this is the gas surcharge versus just raising the prices a bit. i think a surcharge is the way to go. inflation in fuel charges is something something that everybody knows. they see it at the gas station, they pay it themselves. it s something they re well aware of. when you put a surcharge on, people say i know where that s coming from, they re not taking advantage of me and you re of the braing it s temporary. what about you? what do you think? we ve all been on the other end of it. i think it s tough for the consumer to choke on it and if they can find another option, if somebody has buried it or upselling well, they may go