From the Bangor Daily News:KINGMAN, Maine - Like a gathering storm, at least 15 Maine trucks will start toward Washington, D.C. on Sunday to protest record high diesel fuel prices that they say will cause significant price spikes in all consumer goods, organizers said Thursday.
The Coalition to Lower Fuel Prices and the 15 sponsored trucks will gather at a vacant car lot opposite Lincoln Color Center off Route 6 in Lincoln by 6 a.m. on Sunday, said coalition co-founder Belinda Raymond, a town resident.
Other participants will likely join them there, and other trucks and vehicles will be joining the caravan for varying lengths of time as it proceeds along Interstate 95, she said, before it eventually reaches Washington by 10 a.m. on Monday.
"All I know for sure about are the 15 that we’ve lined up with sponsorship and paid for with our fundraisers," Raymond said Thursday. "By the time we hit Kittery, I don’t know how many we’ll have."
The coalition is the Maine representative to a national rally to protest the diesel prices, which some say are crushing the state’s forest products and hauling industries. Other truckers from other industries and from around the country are expected to attend.
So to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, this group felt that driving 15 trucks from Kingman, Maine to Washington, D.C. (Map Quest has it at roughly a 748 mile/12 hour trip) would be the most influential way to prove their point?
“Hey, look at us! We just drove 15 gas-guzzling trucks to protest how much it cost us to make this trip!”
Send an e-mail, post a YouTube video, make a phone call, sign a petition, sacrafice a small animal... do something other then the one thing you are trying to avoid... paying high gas prices when traveling.
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