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Hows that truck strike going?

Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
I just paid $4.96 for a gallon of deisel, I thought them truckers was going on strike to fix that. I been gone for awhile and I aint heard a thing about a big bad truck strike since I left. Did they give up???????
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did, my F350 is in the driveway. I'm riding a unicycle to work.
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:I did, my F350 is in the driveway. I'm riding a unicycle to work.

    Now thats the way to do it. Just skip the two wheels and go straight to one. You are a brave man.[:D]

    Jon
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  • beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Forget truckers in the US doing anything except "quitting driving". Now if they would stick together like the truckers did in Spain----they might wake someone up.

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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    from what i understand it was a dismal failure. all it really accomplished was pissing off and unconvincing thousands of people with those rolling roadblock stunts.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thats what I thought would happen. How many times have they tried to do something like this and it fell apart? A truck strike in the US will never work with all the company owned trucks on the roads, those guys are getting paid so why should they strike?!
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  • Queen of SwordsQueen of Swords Member Posts: 14,355
    edited November -1
    How do you like your investment/retirement plans/mutual funds plans? Probably heavily into energy stocks, like most.

    Guess what? You're PART OF THE PROBLEM, because right now, it's not supply and demand, it's market speculation that is driving the price.

    PS: How would you like it if it cost to 40-50% more to do YOUR job, and it came out of YOUR pay?

    Buy a hybrid.
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  • kyplumberkyplumber Member Posts: 11,111
    edited November -1
    they ran out of fuel and never made it to the protest.
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,245 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Well, for it to work.......Oh well, never mind.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Noticed the Gas Tax cut from Memorial day to Labor Day that McCain mentioned died out also.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm part of the problem? Why because I can afford to drive my diesel pickup? Sure it sucks paying that much but what the hell, $100+ to fill it up, ohh well.
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  • cahascahas Member Posts: 4,064
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Pa Redneck
    I just paid $4.96 for a gallon of deisel, I thought them truckers was going on strike to fix that. I been gone for awhile and I aint heard a thing about a big bad truck strike since I left. Did they give up???????
    Dat aint gonna * you too fer !
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  • SW 357MagSW 357Mag Member Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Pa Redneck
    I'm part of the problem? Why because I can afford to drive my diesel pickup? Sure it sucks paying that much but what the hell, $100+ to fill it up, ohh well.


    $100 fill up? I filled one of my Dodge trucks yesterday for $161. Now that sucks.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I fill up around 1/2 tank, you musta filled up from empty or you got a very large tank. I can't remember how big the tank is on my Ford, 30-35 gallon something like that, I know if I let it get to 1/4 tank I went too far. Ya know I went to Detroit last week, pulled an empty car trailer out and brought back a '79 Trans Am, $400 in fuel but then again I didn't baby that Powerstroke any, had a blast on I-80 passing everything I saw [:D]
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  • SW 357MagSW 357Mag Member Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah I ran it almost empty. 35 gallon tank

    I'd hate to have to fill one of the big boys up though. $1000+ Ouch. [B)]
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    Hope you all feel the same if it goes to ten bucks a gallon.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you won't be thinking it so funny when your food bill triples soon...cost me now 1100.00 dollars to fuel up my four wheel drive tractor each time....wasn't to long ago it cost about 300.00 dollars. what it cost to fuel up my diesel pickup with 40 gallon tank is chump change ....don't know what it costs me a month for fuel for my pickup but its over a thousand a month...that used for getting to my farm, parts runs checking crops, checking cattle ect ect.....chuckle all you want.....but i dont find it very funny.....oh yea fertilizer prices are four times higher than a year ago due to energy prices...ect ect.
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  • arraflipperarraflipper Member Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    cowdoc, you have that so right.

    With corn prices going crazy the rain in the midwest, the lack of it other places is going to drive the costs even higher. My fuel bills it seems have gone nuts, it seems the backhoe or skidsteer is always low on fuel. Then you throw in the truck for getting to and from jobs, and it is always way over a grand a month. I still feel lucky we have been getting to much rain but when I see others flooded out I know things with me aren't nearly so bad after all.

    Jim
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