I’m on Strike

Posted on 24-04-2006

Even though it may seem I’m striking my blog, I’m not. We are on strike because of fuel prices. We delivered Saturday and here it is Monday and we’ve turned down 3 loads because they weren’t paying enough. Things like this, not drive or buy gas for one day, may or may not prove anything. The oil companies will only be laughing and saying, “See ya tomorrow!” Not sure how effective that’s going to be, except for the old, “we’ll show America how important we are” routine.

Heard this morning that If gas is $3.00 a gallon, $1.41 goes back to the source (Saudi’s,
Venuzuela, etc). Federal and state taxes come in at number two at $.69 cents or 23%. Third in the profit line is $.54 to refineries. Distribution and marketing costs $.36 cents. And the oil companies get .07 cents a gallon. Then they want to tax the oil company profits to get more and invest it wisely on our behalf, I’m sure. OPEC says they are pumping oil as fast as refineries can process it. When was the last refinery built in America??? If the government wanted to lower their income from fuel taxes, they could, but I never hear that idea.

So here we sit on strike, waiting for something good, mainly to back to Chicago, but if it’s good, we’ll go anywhere.

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