Response to North American Gas Out

If you think gas prices are hurting your pocketbook, try diesel prices! My husband and I are owner/operators of a 18 wheeler,which is our only source of income. With the price of diesel,and the fact that freight rates have not been raised since the 70's, we are forced to have him drive full time,and I have stayed home (home being living with my mother because we as yet cannot afford our own), and gotten a regular job painting houses. The "big truck" community is in serious difficulty,and are also going to do the "gas out". And if that doesn't get us some relief, we are in the planning stages of an all out shut down for a week. If no one buys fuel for 3 days, it should glut the market,forcing fuel stops to lower prices to move the product,as they are on a regular delivery system,rather than a on call re-fueling system. But more important, if all trucks shut down for a week(and all the big companies are in agreement with this idea), it will in essence, cripple the "go get it when I need it" economy. They slowed fuel production,because the oil cartell wanted to force the price up equal to what the europeans pay. So as the USA sells our oil to Japan, the citizens of this country are beiing held hostage over an agreement with a group of "highway robbers". I for one,will not buy fuel on april 7,8,9. And our truck will be parked,irregardless of what kind of sensitive or needed items we are carrying, when ever the trucking community decides to shut down. Its the only options we have to blackmail.

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