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LONGWOOD, Fla. -- Diesel fuel prices are nearing $4 a gallon, which is putting the squeeze on truck drivers.
They said they're fed up and plan to fight back.
Fuel costs are mounting and profits are disappearing.
-Mike
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Written by :Holzy
here in the US, gas is expected to come close to $4/gallon which is ridiculous.
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Written by :Doc Lightning
So. Some thoughts:
1) Who exactly are they trying to strike against? Who is this strike hurting? It appears to hurt the consumer more than it hurts anyone else. I am not sure who they think is going to take action on their complaint.
2) So fossil fuels went up in price. Maybe the cost of the goods they're transporting should go up in price. Maybe that's how we force the U.S. to re-think its infrastructure.
3) The vast majority of cargo in the U.S. already travels by train. Maybe we need more train lines for both cargo and passengers?
4) Perhaps more local production is warranted?
But bring on high fuel prices. Higher, higher, and higher. If that's what it takes for us to stop burning fossil fuels for energy then that's what it takes.
Written by :Dragon_Drafin
Honestly I could care less about the environment, dependancy on expensive fuels just doesn't make sence.
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However hopeing for the further deterioration of the US economy to get us off fossil fuel isn't the answer either kid.
I think you have some serious flaws in your "thoughts". I'll point a few out.
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The cost of goods is already going up, even things as simple as cerial are increasing in price and decreasing in "box size".
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So what you're saying is that we should muck up more of the natural beauty of the country to lay more rail roads? Who would build said rail lines? The foundation of our rail system was built on slave labor and "practically" slave labor. I wonder how many will die in the creation of your new rail system.
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The U.S. infastructure is not geared towards local communities supporting themselves. If they were either nobody would live in the arid states or they would live there and eat only dry-land crops and who wants to eat peanuts all day everyday??
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Written by :Dragon_Drafin
My comment about the environment was in realtion to polution caused by fossel fules. I'm not concerned about it because as soon as we stop using it, the planet will repair itself. Look at England post extreme coal use. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we nuked the places and yet people and plants are growing just fine in those areas. The planet is made to survive anything we humans can throw at it. (to an extent of course)
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Tell me why is the rise in the cost of food a good thing? If anything, every politician and leader in this country should be doing all they can to decrease the cost of food and shame on you for think its a good thing that its going up!
Written byThey needn't. The system can be electrified
The nation already has a useable rail system and it is a lot larger than you probably think. See it isn't just rail ways that would have to be built. It is all of the additional stops, not to mention additional costs of maintanence and fuel. Yes our trains run on diesle!
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By the way, who is going to pay for your new rail way? How much tax increase is there going to be? I mean an additional large transcontinental rail system would probably run the US tax payer another two Iraq wars. Face it if they spend $10,000 on a hammer then a new mile of track must cost a few billion!
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Why shouldn't Washington apples be sold in michigan? Idaho potatoes are sold all over the country, even world! Whats wrong with that? Its called commerice. If the people of michigan want their own apples they should grow them. Nobody is stopping them. But why shouldnt the orchards of washington sell thier apples to who ever wants to buy them?
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They are being paid NOT to farm IE they grow too much. You can't get more efficiant than growing too much.
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Written by :Dragon_Drafin
I think that our time and money would be better spent on research and development for non-fossle fule sources.
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Written by :Poje
Is there a reason this can't be used to power a car?
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Heh cut the military budget, last time a president did that, the next chap in office had 2 planes flown into the twin towers a plane flown into the pentagon and a plane in field in PA.
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France, Germany, Spain and Belgum, even if you combined them all into one country they woudn't come close to the amount of acreage that the US is, not to mention that the two major mountain ranges and multiple minor mountain ranges.
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An electric rail system would be great. I agree 100%. Small problem... power. We'd have to build multi billion dollar power stations to power the lines. You yourself admit that reuseable energy sources need more work before they can be truly efficiant and others here have pointed out the probems with nuclear energy.
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Doc I wonder if John Doe in Anytown USA would rather pay more for gas, or pay extra taxes for a rail system that he will never "directly" use.
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1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. https://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. https://www.cis.org/articles/2004/f%20iscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. https://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt0..html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social
Services by the American taxpayers. https://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the
US.. https://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. https://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' https://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. https://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by
Illegal Immigrants In The United States '. https://www.drdsk..com/articleshtml
Total cost (tax dollars) for illegal immigrants is a whopping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!
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11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. https://tinyurl.com/t9sht
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Written by :Dragon_Drafin
Regardless (I didn't do the research, just quoting it) lots of money is being spent on people who are not contributing back to the society. So instead of cutting funding for a whole country's freedom why not cut the funding for freeloaders?
If we cut the funding people would leave,
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