A look at gas prices These days, people are paying for rising fuel prices every time they ship a package or buy an airline ticket thanks to the growing number of fuel-dependent businesses that pass their costs along through surcharges and higher prices.
Consumers can count on getting hit even harder in coming weeks.
That's an increase of about 30 percent over last year, when prices weren't exactly depressed, said director of operations Kelly Davis. We don't want to raise our prices. All we want to do is cover our additional costs. Airlines, shipping companies and trucking firms put such fuel surcharges in place months ago. For example, FedEx Corp. began adding a 3 percent fuel surcharge to most shipments in February 2000.