What's everyone think about the trucker strike?

Question

is it gonna help lower gas prices?

Answer 1

Hopefully but not likely. I am sure they will find other people to come in and take less pay to drive the trucks and transport the goods!!

Answer 2

Nope, problem with this strike is that the large trucking companies are not on board with it.   FYI there was a truck-strike in the seventies, that was much bigger.

Answer 3

I don't think it will help. Gas prices are affected by the laws of supply and demand, and with so much demand for oil in China and other nations with booming economies, demand is going up.  Also, the weakness of the dollar against other currencies is helping to push oil prices up.

Most carriers have a fuel surcharge that they pass on to the shipper, though.  I don't know why the independent truckers can't pass this cost along as well, unless the major trucking companies are able to negotiate cheaper fuel.  (Sort of like the discount airlines versus the regular airlines.)

Answer 4

All they did was hurt their own pockets by not working today. One day won't do anything, longer will only hurt a already hurting economy.

Answer 5

Well wouldn't that be wonderful? I honestly don't think it will. One of the results could be that the drivers would have a choice between paying the gas or paying the price in the unemployment line. With how the government is right now, I don't think gas prices will go down.

Answer 6

well if they do strike and it doesn't help the gas and they continue to strike the riots will start

oh and bush sunk to a new level of @$$ hole, any bill that he gets that will take away the tax breaks for the oil companies he will veto

the oil companies are making 180 billion dollars in profits yet they are getting 18 billion in tax breaks?? WTF!!!! and bush wants to keep letting them do this??

292 more days of this bull ****

Answer 7

It might help some, I hope for their sake it does and our sake too but I wouldn't get your hopes up, we need to have a national gas strike of about 2 weeks of not going to work or driving, yea, like that will ever happen!.