It would take about three days to change policy if such a blockade were accompanied by a clear and direct message, such as an export tax on refined fuel products, or no export of fracking-produced petroleum. How about three days of carefully, safely and coordinated blocking key freeways across all major cities in the country? It would take about 500,000 people. So your only option is your numbers and your ability to invoke fear. They are smart and they have vast resources. They know the real reasons for illogical pricing differentials before we do. So, the answer can only be to do what strikes fear into the hearts of legislators or their owners. Our rent-a-politicians, from the most newbie state assembly man/woman to the White House are owned, lock stock and barrel by the power elite, of which the petroleum industry is at the top of the heap. Let's shut our trucks off for two weeks and see what happens. Kudos to the truckers! You do a great job.
Maybe we need more middle class wage earning politicians who understand the value of a dollar. The price increase really hurts the economy by increased consumer costs for goods and a decline in recreation. 99 cents a gallon for diesel fuel! Still less than gasoline. Why then hasn't the price of diesel fallen in response? Because prices are manipulated to serve the purposes of TPTB. In Kenosha over the border into Wisconsin it's still like $3.89 a gallon! I almost want get rid of my Jetta TDI because it's costing me even more money to drive now. Gas is $1.97 in Illinois 45 minutes north of Chicago and I'm still paying $3.19 a gallon for diesel. I was gonna buy a diesel truck to haul my toy hauler. I can't vouch for why the truck stops don't start being competitive, but I guess make hay while the sun shines.
It is simple greed, at least for this station owner. Stop all the conspiracy babble and oil company sticking it to the world. I take a beating on regular unleaded margins, and make it up on the higher grades. Until my competition (there aren't many selling diesel around here) starts lowering their price, no reason for me. Why? First, we don't sell a tremendous amount of diesel (less than 10 percent of fuel sales), and second, because we can. Currently, June 2015, my cost of diesel is a good 20 cents cheaper than regular unleaded, yet my pump price is about 35 to 60 cents higher.
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