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Why not boycott one specific company? That makes more sense than buying gas on Monday or Wednesday to avoid Tuesday. (You do realize that April 1st is Tuesday, not Monday, right?)
Why not boycott one specific company? That makes more sense than buying gas on Monday or Wednesday to avoid Tuesday. (You do realize that April 1st is Tuesday, not Monday, right?)
I heard that also. If everyone would stick to one company for atleast a week, I think that it would send a bigger message.
What message would that send? The message would be, let's let "x" oil get richer, while keeping the price up. So when the others drop their prices to entice drivers, there is no brand loyalty. What do we do to make it really work? rotate which companies we ALL let gouge us every week? Another foolish gas gimmick that is bound for failure before it is fully thought out and no way to implement.
Yeah, these don't work at all. If you want to send a message, don't do it for a day or two: Make a real commitment to cutting back on your oil consumption overall. Lowering demand is the only REAL way to get prices to fall.
As a truck driver, I've got more than a passing interest in fuel prices. As someone who's been in the industry for 11 years now, I doubt more than a handful of drivers will "strike" anyway; most of us just are too busy trying to earn a living. And it's difficult to get 5 truckers to agree on the best route from, say, Joplin, MO to Dallas, TX much less agree to strike for a unified purpose... But I digress. I listened to Steve Sommers on America's Trucking Network last night and I'll have to say that I really like what he had to say on the subject. He said that many in the trucking industry fault those owner operators and small company executives with poor business skills for not being able to make it because they are not controlling their other costs. And that may be a part of the problem. But, he said, it goes much deeper than that. Even those truckers that are doing well should STILL be concerned bcause $4/gallon diesel fuel affects EVERY American. Instead of the griping we do about all of the petty issues of trucking, we should be uniting to hold the politician's feet to the fire. As much as most every other industry in America is hamstrung by OVER-regulation, why in the world aren't the oil futures speculators being regulated? It seems that "anything goes" in the financial services arena. These guys are allowed to manipulate the market for their own selfish gain and the rest of us Americans are left holding the bag. This election season, we've allowed ourselves to get side-tracked by so many minor "red herring" issues. NONE of the three serious candidates for the Oval Office are laying out thir plans for how they'd get our oil prices to a sane level again (and thus our economy back on track) I wish I'd taped Steve's comments...
As a truck driver, I've got more than a passing interest in fuel prices. As someone who's been in the industry for 11 years now, I doubt more than a handful of drivers will "strike" anyway; most of us just are too busy trying to earn a living. And it's difficult to get 5 truckers to agree on the best route from, say, Joplin, MO to Dallas, TX much less agree to strike for a unified purpose... But I digress. I listened to Steve Sommers on America's Trucking Network last night and I'll have to say that I really like what he had to say on the subject. He said that many in the trucking industry fault those owner operators and small company executives with poor business skills for not being able to make it because they are not controlling their other costs. And that may be a part of the problem. But, he said, it goes much deeper than that. Even those truckers that are doing well should STILL be concerned bcause $4/gallon diesel fuel affects EVERY American. Instead of the griping we do about all of the petty issues of trucking, we should be uniting to hold the politician's feet to the fire. As much as most every other industry in America is hamstrung by OVER-regulation, why in the world aren't the oil futures speculators being regulated? It seems that "anything goes" in the financial services arena. These guys are allowed to manipulate the market for their own selfish gain and the rest of us Americans are left holding the bag. This election season, we've allowed ourselves to get side-tracked by so many minor "red herring" issues. NONE of the three serious candidates for the Oval Office are laying out thir plans for how they'd get our oil prices to a sane level again (and thus our economy back on track) I wish I'd taped Steve's comments...
Big oil owns government. Good luck with finding politicians with big enough kahunas to do anything.
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