Truckers' strike/slowdown

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Originally Posted by BrianR

That cost is a cost of doing business and will NOT come from the pockets of corporate fat cats, the truckers or anyone else but the end consumer, who also pays a certain amount to cover those wasteful losses.

Brian

I thought I just went too far into a good explanation as to how that can be avoided at least temporarily, as I was doing. But it probably read like gobeldy-gook. See, you have to get creative to avoid sticker shock especially if the product you supply is already expensive by it's nature.


All you know out there is how much you spend trying to deliver the items. I don't really think it's just up to the truckers to strike, when they pass the charges on and collect for the gas bills. I think it's up to all gas consumers to strike because the situation is not going to change anytime soon while we have a congress that takes a blind eye to gouging.

I started a non-profit awhile back, with some great people that are still on-board, because a lot of people saw this coming long before it started to happen. This situation was one of our many platforms to illustrate our reliance on petrochemicals, and try and demand that people become resourceful enough to start supplying their own areas with a self-sustainable production economy. Look, here it is, happening as predicted, and even truckers are as pissed as predicted (I talked to many while I was doing research).

Remember hurricane Katrina? Remember how everyone needed gas to travel either to the affected area or away from? Gas spiked overnight anywhere up to a dollar or so a tank. That makes me never want to buy their product again!!

Imagine that happening to your favorite restaurant? Busy night? "Well we are going to mark the food up by a third because we are so busy." Now imagine that the same restaurant marked up their prices because no one had any food and had been starving.

I think people should shut down for at least a day and quit driving all at the same time, and boycott gasoline. Not just truckers. It doesn't just effect truckers, it effects everyone. It shouldn't be a truckers strike. It should be a gas boycott for everyone.

People are going to have to learn how to self-sustain, just a little bit, and at least buy local, because the situation will not change, it will only get worse from here, and after a time you will not even be able to deliver anymore. The retail price on a tomato will become so astounding, and the wages will not increase. There will be fewer deliveries and out of state food will become scarce. There's my soap-box. The more this happens the more I'm glad I was out there trying to spread the word about self-sustaining communities. It's funny that the truckers I talked to about it, way back when, knew what in the hell I was talking about, but your average consumer just doesn't get it. Doesn't want to either, it might require work. Food will become only for the rich.

Here was our line: Are you aware of how many miles an average delivery truck drives to get your products to the store?.........

Ok done. Thank you for letting me rant in your strike thread. I'm glad someone is complaining. Sad it's you guys....It's also strange that it's you guys but makes a little sense. Thanks.

Is the strike over btw?