Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Truckers Protesting High Fuel Prices


Photo from source, Breitbart

There are lots of harbingers of doom as it pertains to the US economy right now. But truckers going on strike would be a deep wound. I think of my own city of Las Vegas, and how we'd get buy with no trucks. Not so well, I'm thinking. We might have to resort to Kentucky Fried Pigeon. Let's hope this doesn't ever get organized.

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Truckers Protesting High Fuel Prices

Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices.

Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of
diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. . .

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