Truckers and Fuel Prices.....It Matters
The high fuel costs have had no greater impact than on the American trucker. Here in Illinois the price per gallon of diesel has risen to $4.29 a gallon, across the Mississippi in Missouri diesel is at $4.00 a gallon. Why should we be concerned? As noted in America Matters' side bar, CG and I grew up in the transportation industry and we are affected everyday by the needs of the big rigs and their drivers that dominate our roads and highways. The truck driver and their business is a direct and accurate gauge on our country's economy.
Today thousand of truck drivers made a statement in protest of the high fuel costs that is killing their business and is a blow to their livelihood. PLEASE READ HERE.
My three brother in laws and my father in law all have lived their lives on the road and are paying $1800 dollars in fuel a week. Some may say that it's time to get out of the business I suppose right? There is a deeper lying problem with the costs we are paying for gas and diesel...... Many of these drivers are blaming the oil companies, and are lashing out. ...and that's okay.. I always listen to a truck driver because they have seen it all and they need an ear to bend now and then. However, it's not the oil companies....... the oil companies are basing their businesses on supply and demand. Our Arab friends play with those numbers and can morph them in anyway they wish. American oil can only respond to the cost they pay from OPEC leaders. That is the problem. Our Arab "friends" have been bending us over for years.....
The solution? It's really plain to see in my eyes. We all know we have oil here in our own country that has been untapped. We are fighting environmentalists and leftists that refuse to let us drill for oil that we need so desperately to shake the grip of the Arab scum. Instead? We are more concerned about the migration habits of the caribou and how it may affect them, animals adapt and they have no bills to pay. I find the thought of new refineries in Alaska for the caribou no different than new subdivisions going up in the heartland where deer are overpopulating, the mighty coyote thrives, raccoons are still a nuisance, and the song birds sing on my back porch. Animals adapt.
The oil is here for us to give relief to the economy, all the while we can develop more fuel technology.
The trucking industry is the life line of goods and wares throughout this country. The trucking industry delivers more freight to the world than trains and ships. Our goods do not show up in the stores through osmosis. If the trucker pays high prices for fuel? We pay high prices for goods. Its the snowball.....be ready.
So instead of worrying about the endangered "Algonquin Sidewaddler Pookie Bird" (okay I made that up)? Let's use common sense and drill for the oil that lay beneath our feet.
Thx LT 
LT, how right you are. People need to realize that the more it costs a trucking company to move freight....and it's NOT freight....it's each and every day-to-day item we buy off of every stores' shelf....the more it costs the consumer to buy those items. Groceries, gas, shoes, socks, housewares, hardware, clothes...every consumable good you buy today is transported by truck. As the costs to transport these goods goes up, so does your price to buy those goods. It's really quite simple, wake up and realize that. Trucking companies are NOT oil companies, they do NOT operate with HUGE profit margins, most are lucky to realize 5,6, 10% profit.....THAT'S IT! Trucking has to adhere to more types of oeprational rules and regulations governing engine emissions, hours a driver can operate, etc. They are getting squeezed on a daily basis.
Dig up the shale and extract the crude! Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! Do it NOW!
Sure, all of these are a short-term fix, but you know what, we have no choice. I'm all for alternative fuel, and this kind of gas and that kind of gas....whatever.....but until the technology is in place for these alternative fuels to be a reality and economically feasible....dig up the stuff that's in the ground already.
Thanks...........CG
Amen.Check the price of eggs for example.