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Apr 11, 2008

TRUCKERS' BOYCOTT * USA - Response ‘overwhelming’ to fuel boycott planned for Friday

Chehalis, WA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -April 10, 2008: -- With less than 24 hours before the April 11 fuel boycott in Chehalis, WA, was set to begin, Sherrie Bond, the event’s organizer and OOIDA member, said the response she had received this week has been overwhelming... Sherrie Bond and her husband, Bob, are log haulers and are feeling the squeeze of high diesel fuel prices and low-paying loads. They have planned the fuel boycott for Friday, April 11, in Chehalis, WA. The aim is to bring together everyone from a wide spectrum to protest record-high fuel prices and to direct national mainstream media attention to this issue... The boycott will begin in the predawn hours Friday at Exit 72, west of Interstate 5 in the overflow parking lot that the local frozen food plant in Chehalis uses for their trucks during harvest... Her goal with the fuel boycott is to gain national attention to the truckers’ plight...

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May 16, 2007

Gas boycott * USA - Largely ignored by local motorists

Boycott, schmoycott...!!!

Tucson, Arizona -The Arizona Daily Star, by Shelley Shelton -16 May 2007: -- That seemed to be the attitude of people filling their gas tanks at local stations Tuesday — a day that had been designated through e-mail and word-of-mouth as a time to boycott gas stations in protest of record-high gas prices... Tucson's average gas price held steady at $2.99, just a penny below what is largely a symbolic price benchmark as locals feel the pinch anyway... "We need it. We have to buy it. There's nothing we can do," said Ted Sanchez, 70, when he finished gassing up at the Arco AM/PM Market at South Park Avenue and East Benson Highway... (Photo: Mamta popat/Arizona Daily Star - "I'll take the cheap stuff," says motorist Charlie Morriss. "Gotta have it, whatever the price, I'll pay")

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