Truckers plan protest convoy

Their mantra was "Power in numbers," a phrase that encapsulated the feeling of truckers from all over Pennsylvania -- and other parts of the country -- who rallied at the Gables truck stop near Grantville ...

[anonymous_coward]

who are they protesting? suv drivers? the chinese economy? dinosaurs for not having made more oil?

[rep]

Oh really?
Prices are too high huh?

Diesel in Germany is over $9.00 on a per gallon basis. In the UK, premium gas is almost $9.00 also, when looked at per gallon.

Diesel in the US right now is averaging between $4.00 and $4.50 a gallon. Premium gas is averaging "just" about $3.50 per gallon when compared to what people are paying in other countries.

We Americans need to understand that petroleum products are a global commodity, traded and sold by the minute on world markets. Just like orange juice, pork bellies, and soybeans. Traders dictate the prices based on what someone is willing to BUY the commodity for, and what someone else is willing to SELL the commodity for. Oftentimes, the prices get set for delivery of the actual product months AHEAD -such as April future contracts on light sweet crude (the easiest refined gasoline/diesel type of petroleum). I.E., current day trade prices set that cost for the future - its more financial speculation and gambling - but here in the U.S., it's how our Capitalist Free Market system works.

Don't believe the gas costs I mention above? Go here to this website, and see for yourself:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas...

Remember, it's also about CONSUMPTION - not just supply and demand. We should keep that in mind the next time we sit idling for 5 minutes at the drive-thru, or jump in our SUVs to get to the other end of the mall because we don't want to walk.

Good luck with that symbolic protest - let me know how ya make out.

[RINO Hunter]

anonymous_coward wrote:

who are they protesting? suv drivers? the chinese economy? dinosaurs for not having made more oil?

Hippies protesting the expansion of drilling or putting more refineries online...

[JOHN]

rep wrote:

Oh really?
Prices are too high huh?
Diesel in Germany is over $9.00 on a per gallon basis. In the UK, premium gas is almost $9.00 also, when looked at per gallon.
Diesel in the US right now is averaging between $4.00 and $4.50 a gallon. Premium gas is averaging "just" about $3.50 per gallon when compared to what people are paying in other countries.
We Americans need to understand that petroleum products are a global commodity, traded and sold by the minute on world markets. Just like orange juice, pork bellies, and soybeans. Traders dictate the prices based on what someone is willing to BUY the commodity for, and what someone else is willing to SELL the commodity for. Oftentimes, the prices get set for delivery of the actual product months AHEAD -such as April future contracts on light sweet crude (the easiest refined gasoline/diesel type of petroleum). I.E., current day trade prices set that cost for the future - its more financial speculation and gambling - but here in the U.S., it's how our Capitalist Free Market system works.
Don't believe the gas costs I mention above? Go here to this website, and see for yourself:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas...
Remember, it's also about CONSUMPTION - not just supply and demand. We should keep that in mind the next time we sit idling for 5 minutes at the drive-thru, or jump in our SUVs to get to the other end of the mall because we don't want to walk.
Good luck with that symbolic protest - let me know how ya make out.

YA AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE PAYING YOU JACKASS IF WE DON'T PUT A {"STOP TO IT RIGHT NOW")!!!!!!!!!

[anon]

I for one think it is time they stand up and be heard. It is horrible that our trucking industry is being put in such a bad position. I hope you plan to drive all those trucks through Harrisburg. My suggestion would be to take them directly up Front Street. Turn on Forester St and find the capital Bldg. Why are we still not opening up Alaska? Don't give me that animal rights destroy the land crap. It's our oil let's use it. Our government (state and federal) can do something about this. They choose not to. I believe following the upcoming election things will change. Do you think this is a democratic game to ensure the election of a democrat? Rendell could put all state employees on 4 day work weeks. Rotate staff so the offices remain open 5 days a week. Do you realize how much of a difference this would make. How many state employees commute from long distances into Harrisburg? The money saved by only commuting 4 days/week would be spent and put back into the economy. Little changes could make a differences but our government doesn't want these changes to take place yet. It will happen in time. Good luck guys! Keep on Truckin"

[JOHN]

WAY TO GO TRUCKERS!!!!!!!!!! I PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK YOU AND WISH YOU ALLL THE BEST!!!!!!!! I WISH THE EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY WOULD JUST FOR ONE DAY SAY THE HELL WITH IT AND NOT GO TO WORK IN PROTEST!!!! BUT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!!!! PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE "NO" BACK BONE!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD LUCK TRUCKERS!!!!!!!!

[RUCRAZY]

Maybe this will encourage more rail freight.

[Gram]

Put the trailer on a railroad freight car. It will get there safer & will cost us all less in the long run. Use trucks for more local, not so much long distance. There will be less truck accidents too. The whole fuel situation has gotten way out of hand.

[concerned]

Gram wrote:

Put the trailer on a railroad freight car. It will get there safer & will cost us all less in the long run. Use trucks for more local, not so much long distance. There will be less truck accidents too. The whole fuel situation has gotten way out of hand.

I can tell your family income doesn't rely on the trucking companies.

[Fed upper]

I don't understand how DRIVING your trucks in a convoy will help???Won't that take GAS??

A BETTER idea would be for us all to declare a whole day that we will NOT buy gas! Let's pick one!

[Sgt Rock]

rep wrote:
Oh really?
Prices are too high huh?
Diesel in Germany is over $9.00 on a per gallon basis. In the UK, premium gas is almost $9.00 also, when looked at per gallon.
Diesel in the US right now is averaging between $4.00 and $4.50 a gallon. Premium gas is averaging "just" about $3.50 per gallon when compared to what people are paying in other countries.
We Americans need to understand that petroleum products are a global commodity, traded and sold by the minute on world markets. Just like orange juice, pork bellies, and soybeans. Traders dictate the prices based on what someone is willing to BUY the commodity for, and what someone else is willing to SELL the commodity for. Oftentimes, the prices get set for delivery of the actual product months AHEAD -such as April future contracts on light sweet crude (the easiest refined gasoline/diesel type of petroleum). I.E., current day trade prices set that cost for the future - its more financial speculation and gambling - but here in the U.S., it's how our Capitalist Free Market system works.
Don't believe the gas costs I mention above? Go here to this website, and see for yourself:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas ...
Remember, it's also about CONSUMPTION - not just supply and demand. We should keep that in mind the next time we sit idling for 5 minutes at the drive-thru, or jump in our SUVs to get to the other end of the mall because we don't want to walk.
Good luck with that symbolic protest - let me know how ya make out.

JOHN wrote:

<quoted text>YA AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE PAYING YOU JACKASS IF WE DON'T PUT A {"STOP TO IT RIGHT NOW")!!!!!!!!!

And just how do we put this "stop" to it, if I may ask??

[Pa-Posse]

Just remember,if you got it a truck probably brought it.

[We have tons of oil folks]

...thank you California, Ralph Nader, "Tree Huggers", Environmentalists', Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and Alan Greenspan...due to your continued efforts, we have not had a new refinery constructed in over 40 years!! Those that still operate have not been upgraded to keep up with the demand, are old, some unsafe, and are operating at only 40 per cent efficiency. Oil? There is so much domestic sweet crude waiting to be off loaded that should one of those ships rupture in the harbor in New Orleans, then that spill would make the Exxon valdez look like just a drop in the bucket. Want to complain? Then take it to Washington and tell the environmentalists' to allow more refineries built and more Nuclear Power plants to come on line!

[Anon33]

And to drill in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico

[Cane]

JOHN wrote:

<quoted text>YA AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE PAYING YOU JACKASS IF WE DON'T PUT A {"STOP TO IT RIGHT NOW")!!!!!!!!!

Most of these fools complaining about the price of gas are the same idiots who voted for Bush and support this crazy war that caused the gas price hike. Remember the $1.50 gas before the war started? I do.

And if you look at the economies of Europe with their high gas and taxes...they are competative with the US. Why? Because we are the most wasteful country on earth, damn proud of it, and have built our entire economy on cheap commodities.

Let the gas do what it will. We, and the US economy will eventually adjust. Maybe we won't be able to buy 8 mile a gallon SUVs. Maybe we won't work in a traffic clogged city and drive that SUV 4 hrs roundtrip to work everyday from a spacious house in the country. Maybe we'll realize the efficiencies of urban living. Maybe we'll embrace smaller, better comsuption. Maybe we'll learn to use mass transit.

"Saving" an inefficient economy is a losing battle. Pull all the artificial supports and subsidies and the economy will find its balance...and be stronger for it in the long run. It may not be pretty or fun, but its what is ultimately best.

[asag]

Pa-Posse wrote:

Just remember,if you got it a truck probably brought it.

THE SAYING IS " IF YOU BOUGHT IT A TRUCK BROUGHT IT"!!!!!

[Paul]

The truckers should protest. They have every right to do so. In addition the should get the support of every local pol to stand with them, particularly the money-grubbing Terry Punt who felt it was OK to go along with the pay raise and boost to his pension. Do truckers get anything like those benefits? Not on your life!

[Colonel Jessep]

The truckers will do exactly what they're ordered to do. They will follow orders or peoples lives will be in danger. It's that simple.

-Colonel Nathan R. Jessep. Commanding officer Marine ground forces Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[The Snowman]

Hey RubberDuck.. looks like we got ourselves a CONVOY!!

Now... where's that sumbich Sheriff Buford "Bush" T. Justice?

We're East Bound and Down!! 10-4!

[redbug]

Cane wrote:

“Let the gas do what it will. We, and the US economy will eventually adjust. Maybe we won't be able to buy 8 mile a gallon SUVs. Maybe we won't work in a traffic clogged city and drive that SUV 4 hrs roundtrip to work everyday from a spacious house in the country. Maybe we'll realize the efficiencies of urban living. Maybe we'll embrace smaller, better consumption. Maybe we'll learn to use mass transit.”

Lovely words, but I don't think this will happen anytime soon. Deluded, clueless Americans by the millions are still wedded to their beloved (gag)“sports trucks”, SUVs, bloatmeister statusmobiles, whatever you want to call them. You don't see the insanity firsthand unless you come across an idling Ford Excursion or Nissan Armada in the parking lot, then go inside the store and overhear the fool owner complaining about the price of fuel. There's this near-total mental disconnection between cause and effect .. like, duh, anyone would actually think that increasing the demand for fuel (by consuming it wastefully) is somehow going to magically make the price go down instead of up?

The carnage will be impressive one Ostrich Nation awakes to reality.