Applying some common sense is probably asking too much

Last week, independent truckers staged a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices by pulling their rigs off the road or driving them at slow speeds (Story here). Truckers were hoping this protest might spur the President into action by tapping into the nation’s oil reserves.

From what we understand, the oil reserves are for emergency use only and though fuel prices are indeed high, we don’t think this necessarily qualifies as an emergency. But from what we know about “recessions”, its not a matter if you meet the technical definition of said state but rather that you “feel” as if you are in one.

So our advice to the truckers is that rather than further slowing the economy with this hair-brained “protest”, they might instead petition their lawmakers to stabilize the fuel market by putting a few more holes in the ground.

Honest to g#d… While we all sit around patiently waiting for the inevitable starving of the world’s poor so that our entire economy can rest in the hands of some Iowan farmers or that day when we can roll big rigs down the interstates bristling with solar-electro-catalytic laser panels, would it be too much to ask to use what’s sitting directly beneath our feet?