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I usually don’t bother with WND articles (long on hyperventilation, short on facts), but I’ve seen rumblings of this in other sources, and it’s something we need to be aware of...

This could be the trigger that transforms our planning and preparations - especially for us urban folks - from intellectual exercise to deadly serious necessity....

Independent truckers planning shutdown
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 28, 2008

Posted on 03/29/2008 6:22:04 AM CDT by Man50D

Crude oil is running $100 a barrel and it costs $50 instead of $35 to fill your car, but you carpool occasionally and watch the number of trips across town so you’re doing all right so far. But what happens when, in addition to the $50 fillup, your groceries go from $80 to $120 and you hunt for new jeans but the shelves don’t even have your size?

That’s the very real possibility that is triggering an unofficial nationwide call for a shutdown by thousands of independent truck operators who deliver those supplies – all sparked by the rising costs of fuel.

One website already explains about 18,000 trucks have been committed to the shutdown starting April 1, and whether it goes for a day or a week, they are hoping that their actions will get the attention of officials who, they demand, must do something to help.

The Washington Post reports Lee Klass, hauling 41,000 pounds of hairspray from Florida to Quebec, stopped in North Carolina to refill fuel tanks, and paid $960. Diesel prices, he told the paper, “are terrible, and they’re not getting any better.”

Auto clubs that monitor prices say diesel has gone up more than 50 cents a gallon in barely two months, and has been setting records almost daily. The nationwide average on one recent day was $3.87 a gallon.

The newspaper warned fuel price hikes, especially trucks, have the potential to disrupt the Federal Reserve’s plan to contain inflation while creating growth with low interest rates, combined with the money giveaway program approved by Congress.

That’s because trucking claims 70 percent of U.S. freight transportation, from the cars you drive to work to the milk your children drink.

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Here in Maine one trucker took several of his logging trucks, parked them in front of the state house in Augusta and told his dealer to repossess as he no longer could make payments. They are trying to get the governor to lower many of the road taxes, gas taxes etc. My thought is that if they lower that, they will only raise other taxes. The real answer would be to reduce govt. and govt. spending, but what do I know?
I feel fortunate as I have seen hard times and I live in a good place (if there is any GOOD place) to survive. We are hunters and fishermen and quite familiar with the northern areas around Moosehead Lake. Have a popup camper and are very used to roughing it for extended periods in that area. I would chance drinking from fast moving streams in an emergency as my husband has done it many times. We also know the sites of many natural springs. We keep several cans of gas for our farm equipment-rotating it to keep it fresh so am sure we would have the fuel to get to some remote spot. My real concern is for my extended family who is nowhere near as self-sufficient as hubby and I.

Independent truckers planning shutdown
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 28, 2008<<<

They did this in 1979 or 78.

The big shutdown did not hit here as hard as the one a few months before when the Safeway trucks went on strike.

At that time Kingman had one giant Safeway store and several family type stores.

There is no way that I will forget what that giant building looked like with its rows of shelves and nothing on them.

If they had anything, it was one kind of cereal, one type bread and you were allowed to buy one and no more than that.

The Safeway manager was hauling his stock from Las Vegas in a pickup.

A real truck shut down here is a disaster, about 50,000 people now connect to Kingman, and it may be far more than that.

We make nothing here, we grow nothing here.

Every drop of gas and diesel comes from Las Vegas and Phoenix.

It is a live pay check to pay check town.

Yes, WND and Debka are ahead of their time in their news reports, but if you go and read the old ones, you find that they were not that far off center, they just come out with it first.

A real truck strike, is going to wake a few people up.