Are the truckers still employing block the freeway strategy today where you live?

[lonestarnot]

Not here yet.

[Redstone]

1. And, will they lower fuel prices by doing it? Like they did so well last time, and the time before?

Christ, how many times have we seen THIS idiocy? Answer: Many.

And how many times did it lower fuel prices by even one cent? Answer: None.

Redstone

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So what is your better idea?

[Redstone]

4. Everybody drives less. Fuel prices go down for everyone, including the truckers - who, I'll

grant, CAN'T drive less.

But those of us who can, will help them if we do so.

How's that?

Redstone

[lonestarnot]

5. I actually like their idea.

and yours can't hurt either.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I like it but is it do-able?

[Kokonoe]

16. When I lost my job, I did stop driving.

Do I have to wait till everyone loses their job.

These guys drive for their lives, and they quit driving because they lose money working.


I trust you redstone. you say they can't drive less without sacrifice.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

21. Wont work..

Part of the rise in cost is the fact other nations like China are competing for oil prices are only going to go up...

What has to be dont is to get these guys a better per mile rate to compensate..

[Myrina]

7. How 'bout a mass tar-and-feathering for oil co CEO's?

:shrug: Works for me ...

[Redstone]

9. Wall Street sets the prices. Not the oil companies.

Redstone

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Not to be picky, but the New York Mercantile Exchange is at 1 N. End Ave., on the Hudson

Not on Wall Street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=mercantile+exchange&near=New+York,+NY&fb=1&cid=0,0,16759174958236771292&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image

[Redstone]

19. Hey, thanks. I hadn't known that, and will adjust the target of my anger accordingly.

(Not said with sarcasm.)

Redstone

[lonestarnot]

14. That sounds like too much fun!

[lonestarnot]

3. And until it's done en masse, it will have little to no affect period.

[Redstone]

8. Do they really think that the Wall Street traders who determine the price of fuel will actually

say to themselves, "Damn, it's taking me a long time to get to work today. Maybe I shouldn't bid up the price of a barrel of crude to $110 today."

Not likely. The heartless, greedy fucks aren't ABOUT to care about the truckdrivers.

The only thing that we, all of us can do, is to use as much less petroleum as we can possibly stand to. That is the only thing that will help those truckers out.

Redstone

[Lars39]

11. They might care if a good portion of the business world was shut down

by people joining the truckers in their strike.

[Ikonoklast]

13. The U.S. military is the single biggest user of diesel in the world

These wars are sort of like a double whammy to the spot diesel market world-wide.

And every time the equity market gets a flutter, the traders all flee to the commodities markets and run prices up.

Oil at a record high for intra-day trading right now.

These might be the 'good old days' in a few short years.


The next wars will be fought over food. Diesel is a big part of that, as well as the costs of petroleum-based fertilizers.

They are starting now, with riots in the poorest regions of the world. Riots in Egypt right now over the price and scarcity of rice.

The 'embargo' word on commodity exports has been bandied about in order to keep grain here, seeing how China could conceivably buy an entire grain harvest with the currency reserves they have, if they needed to.

Gave soybeans and corn a pause last month.

Things can spiral out of control very quickly....if the U.S. has bad weather during the coming growing season, all hell is gonna break loose.

Worldwide.

[lonestarnot]

15. Over $112 a barrel today.

[Ikonoklast]

17. And the day ain't over yet

We are losing control over our economy, and the oligarchs will just move on after they stripped the wealth from this nation, like a flock of vultures, to strip the next victim economy of all wealth.

I feel sorry for China.
It will happen before they even know they lost control of their markets.
Misery on a massive scale.

Profit rules over all.

[PVnRT]

12. Hey, if it gets them to slow the fuck down around here

I'm all for it. They drive like lunatics on the stretch of highway I share with them twice a day.

[madokie]

6. Don't know, the hiways aren't close enough to hear them

and haven't ventured away from home today. I sure hope they are though as more people needs to be pissed off about this hiway robbery thats going on with our fuel prices right now. Profits are killing us.

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

20. Dont know...

I only have a 3 mile drive to work on local roads :)