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INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS' STRIKES * USA - MORE RESULTS
* Truckers discuss issues with Sen. Hillary Clinton
Harrisburg,PEN,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -April 1, 2008: -- When trucker Mark Kirsch organized a rally in Pennsylvania to draw attention to fuel prices, he did not expect it to lead to a meeting the same day with presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton... Kirsch and a number of other truckers had just completed a rally Monday, March 31, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, PA, when he got a call from a member of Clinton’s campaign staff... “I never expected this, I’ll tell you that,” Kirsch told Land Line... The truckers had a chance to call it as they see it out there on the road... “We discussed a lot of issues about fuel surcharges, about fuel in general"... “She addressed a lot of issues on that stuff, and things went very well... I think we took a giant leap today,” he said... The next step for the organizers of the Harrisburg rally, he said, is to put together another event to get the attention of lawmakers in Washington, DC...
* Congressional committee puts Big Oil in the hot seat - “On April Fools day, the biggest joke of all is being played on American families by Big Oil.”
Harrisburg,PEN,USA -Land Line Magazine -April 1, 2008: -- With the nation experiencing record high diesel and gas prices, top executives of the nation’s five biggest oil companies received a chilly reception from some members of a Congressional committee on Tuesday, April 1... The Associated Press reported that Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Markey, D-MA, opened the hearing by saying: “On April Fools day, the biggest joke of all is being played on American families by Big Oil.” ... Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-MO, told the oil executives their approval ratings are lower than those of Congress and “the anger level is rising significantly.” ... The oil company officials defended their $123 billion in profits last year, claiming profits during good years help them get through bad years...
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