If you look at it from a tire manufacturer's perspective, an oil price increase is a triple whammy for us, ... Oil is a major ingredient in the production of tires. It affects the cost to make tires, it affects the cost to heat or cool the plant where we make tires and, of course, the trucking cost to ship the tires.

Jim Davis

Jim Davis

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