Iam watching the news this morning and there showing the 5 freeway in the LA area completley blocked, traffic backed up for miles, there saying the truckers might try to block other freeways,there protesting the price of diesel fuel. I have never seen anybody block A freeway before at least on purpose

Hummmm, well are your sure it wasn't normal Cali traffic?




Joe

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Usually its a diesel fuel SPILL

Tuesday they had a good one, through a pass. A garbage truck, a tanker truck and a pool chemical truck got tangled up. Chlorine, amonia and burning fuel

Was it on the 5 north at... Imperial Hwy offramp area? My friend told me about it, said it took about 45 minutes to get from Carmenita to Florence.

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If you remember correctly, the truckers in Belgium, Germany, and France were doing this a couple of summers ago. Fuel in Europe was around $6.00 per imperial gallon. OUCH!!! Prices are $1.59 in Kentucky. . .how bad is it in LA?

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Hovering from $1.99 to $2.19 for regular

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Diesel's hovering around $2.30 around west LA lately. This is roughly the price of premium gasoline as well- I can understand why the truckers are upset, but how is blocking traffic going to do anything to solve the problem?

I'm not sure if it will either. The traffic's so bad there anyway that I doubt that anyone will know the difference.

I used to live off of Lakewood Blvd from the 5 and that was typical at almost anytime when lived there 6 years ago.

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Yeah, it didn't work in Europe. It won't work here. It'll get a lot of press though.

End result: A lot of angry people, a lot of press time, and fuel prices stay the same. It sounds like a waste of time.

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I have an idea that would be hard to accomplish but just might change the price of fuels. If the whole U.S or maybe just the west coast did not buy fuel for one day maybe even longer. Imagine what that would do. That would be quite a loss in profit. I have pondered the thought of a chain email. This would likely not be effective due to I delete all forwarded emails. Any ideas how we as a group could pull this off? Maybe a set date through word of mouth. Would be great to hear feedback.
TCP

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In that movie “Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance” they’ve got all these time lapse shots of the world gone mad and whatever. One is of the 405 (I think) as one car touches there brakes very slightly, the one behind touches their’s and so on and so on. Hours later traffic is stopped dead.

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The idea is nothing new. Check out http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

Howdy,

You don't see airliners stop on runways to protest. They just pass the costs along to their customers.

I think if truckers REALLY want to do something about the price of their fuel they need to band together and purchase it in bulk. They shouldn't have a temper tantrum that affects the rest of us.

Besides, fuel is cheap. When I was in high school ('83 - '84), it was easily 1.25/gal and back then that was alot.

JMHO

Sholin

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