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Capital of New York to be shut down June 19th by massive trucker protest, GAS TAXES TOO HIGH
WROW Albany NY ^

Posted on 06/17/2008 10:47:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro

More info and contact info here: http://www.wrow.com/pages/pages.php?page=16


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: albany; capitol; gasprices; trucking
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To: gidget7
Fantastic. I wish truckers in the DC area, or driving through, would do the same thing!

It would be even better if they didn't deliver anything to Congress.....maybe Congress would wise up and go home.

21 posted on 06/17/2008 11:31:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Mr. Jeeves
The MSM can’t publish stories like that! ;)

They "can" but they won't :)

22 posted on 06/17/2008 11:33:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Absolutely! Truckers get 90% of all products to consumers. They certainly have even more at stake than the rest of us, who better to call attention to this crisis. And YES it is a crisis!

Every other country goes and gets the oil their economies need, and yet we, the most free and rich nation on earth, do not!

23 posted on 06/17/2008 11:35:08 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: 1Old Pro
Albany is the capital, it's where all the legislators hold their special interest fundraisers and see thier girlfriends.

If they were promoted to governor, they could fly out of state to rent their girlfriends.

More seriously, I'm glad to see truckers coming together on the issue, though I would think that a more critical city would be a better target. Like Washington, DC (which is really the source of the oil price/energy issue anyway).

24 posted on 06/17/2008 11:37:51 AM PDT by meyer (Government is the problem, not the solution.)
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To: 1Old Pro

It’s not stupid, y’all are doing a good thing and I hope it happens elsewhere too!


25 posted on 06/17/2008 11:38:22 AM PDT by wazoo1031
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To: gidget7
Fantastic. I wish truckers in the DC area, or driving through, would do the same thing!

They already do every monday through friday. It's called the beltway.

26 posted on 06/17/2008 11:38:33 AM PDT by palmer (Tag lines are an extra $1)
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To: 1Old Pro

i’m traveling to albany from nyc tomorrow morning by motorcycle. this should be quite a sight.


27 posted on 06/17/2008 11:40:51 AM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: palmer

No they need to block all the roadways around the capital, and protest!


28 posted on 06/17/2008 11:41:15 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: gidget7

Hope it works — throwing tea into the bay isn’t going to do it this time.


29 posted on 06/17/2008 11:44:10 AM PDT by varina davis
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To: swarthyguy

What would they surround in NYC? I would think that the other buroughs would just go on with their business.


30 posted on 06/17/2008 11:51:12 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: gridlock

As long as the legislature is in session, no man’s life liberty or property is safe. Incidentally, 6-19 is the second to last day of the legislative session, 6-23 being the last. Anything bad for Albany is good for the state.


31 posted on 06/17/2008 11:52:53 AM PDT by appeal2 (Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but great stupidity is reserved for the Gov't)
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To: Codeflier
Do you have a better method that you are carrying out? Finally, someone is doing something! Go truckers aAnd put a big sign on your trucks that reads - DRILL NOW!
32 posted on 06/17/2008 11:56:00 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: 1Old Pro
Good Luck. I work across the street from the capitol, so this should be cool. Of course shutting down sate government is another matter. It's hard to shut down, what ain't running in the first place.
33 posted on 06/17/2008 12:01:00 PM PDT by skully (The Demoplubican party is killing this country...We need a 2 party system.)
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To: stuartcr
What would they surround in NYC? I would think that the other buroughs would just go on with their business.

10 rigs "broke down" 3-5 abreast at each of the following the George, Lincoln, Holland, Verizano, Queens Midtown Tunnel, BQE and maybe a few other spots will snarl traffic for 10 miles in every direction, including in Manhattan.

34 posted on 06/17/2008 12:11:07 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: skully

I hope you will give us on the spot reports!


35 posted on 06/17/2008 12:33:34 PM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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To: rhombus
OK, “truckers”... you wouldn’t by any chance be Teamsters would you? If so, who is it who your union is supporting for President? Who is it your union supported for Governor? For NYS Senator? Hello?

Exactly.

36 posted on 06/17/2008 12:35:25 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Malsua

That would hinder the regular people too, I don’t think that is the intent.


37 posted on 06/17/2008 12:42:33 PM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: 1Old Pro
I think that oil companies making 5 cents a gallon profit yet big government making 40 cents a gallon is stupid.

I've heard stories that private gas station owners are only making a few cents profit on a gallon of gas, but I would doubt that this is the case with the oil companies.

If the profit margin on the entire business of drilling and refining were only 1%, the oil companies would go into another line of work. It's obviously in their interest to poormouth as much as possible at the present time.

38 posted on 06/17/2008 12:45:06 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: 1Old Pro
I think that oil companies making 5 cents a gallon profit yet big government making 40 cents a gallon is stupid.

Amen to that.
39 posted on 06/17/2008 12:59:18 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (This tagline is completely naked - STOP STARING!)
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To: skully

I hope you will give us on the spot reports!


40 posted on 06/17/2008 1:03:42 PM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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