Truckers are small business persons in this country. Alot of the stuff hauled around the country is carried by independent truckers. These truckers own rigs..they're not some corporate special interest looking for a hand out. They haul the stuff we want so that they can put food on the table and pay for their kids' education.
Lately, independent truckers have shown a side of American patriotism few in Washington, D.C. remember any more. They've staged highway slow downs to protest oil corporations that are gauging American consumers.
I say let them shut down the country.
Two candidates---McCain and Clinton---have proposed what the third candidate, Senator Obama, has rightly called a "gimmick." And indeed it is.
The fact that alternative fuels are urgently needed was apparent to many of us in the 1970s. What has your government done about it? Nothing.
I say open domestic sources of oil production in an environmentally friendly way, IF and ONLY IF the federal government heeds the stipulation that such sources shall ONLY be used until a cost effective and fairly quick alternative energy can be developed.
In the meantime, let the independent truckers shut down the US.
