Several ways to keep energy costs stable are backed.
Entrepreneurs get ahead by taking clients out to lunch, delivering goods, and doing other service work. Small business owners and people who work for themselves need transportation to sell and deliver their goods and services. But rising energy costs are making it harder for small business owners to stay in business and make money.
Members of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) were asked how rising gas prices affect their business in an online poll. Over 70% of microbusiness owners agreed that rising gas prices are hurting their businesses either a lot or a little. Almost half of the people who answered the survey raised prices to make up for the rising cost of fuel.
Robert Hughes, the president of NASE, says that small business owners often use their cars or shipping services to reach their customers. "Most people did not plan for such increases in their travel or shipping budgets for the year."
This year, people who work for themselves will have to change their budgets to account for rising energy costs. In the meantime, the association members who took the survey support a number of ways to keep energy costs stable. Two-thirds of the people who answered the survey were in favour of giving energy companies tax breaks to develop new energy-efficient technologies and giving tax breaks to people who buy cars with fuel-efficient technology. 67 percent of those who answered the poll liked the idea of more drilling in possible oil-rich areas inside and outside of the U.S.
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