April 28, 2008
Maine truckers protest in D.C.
About a dozen Maine commercial truck drivers are in Washington, D.C., today to protest rising diesel fuel prices that they say threaten to put them out of business.
The members of the Coalition to Lower Fuel Prices left Maine in their big rigs yesterday to join hundreds of truckers from 25 other states for a demonstration on the steps of the Capitol, the Portland Press Herald reported. Coalition members say that increasing fuel prices have put more than 200 truckers out of business in the past year, and they plan to ask Congress to offset increasing fuel prices by cutting taxes, supporting alternative fuels and drilling for more oil, according to the paper.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average price of diesel fuel in New England is $4.34 a gallon, an increase of $1.48 a gallon from last year, the paper reported.
The members of the Coalition to Lower Fuel Prices left Maine in their big rigs yesterday to join hundreds of truckers from 25 other states for a demonstration on the steps of the Capitol, the Portland Press Herald reported. Coalition members say that increasing fuel prices have put more than 200 truckers out of business in the past year, and they plan to ask Congress to offset increasing fuel prices by cutting taxes, supporting alternative fuels and drilling for more oil, according to the paper.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average price of diesel fuel in New England is $4.34 a gallon, an increase of $1.48 a gallon from last year, the paper reported.
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