So the truckers are going to roll into Pierre and give an earful to Gov. Rounds:
The organizer of next Monday’s protest in Pierre by truckers who are mad about high diesel-fuel prices says he’s been told that Gov. Mike Rounds will address the group.
Brian Frahm says that means someone is listening.
An estimated 100 to 200 truck drivers are expected to drive a convoy through the capital city to draw attention to high fuel prices.
First of all, I am not sure that we need any convoy anywhere to bring attention to fuel prices. Just being sentient should be enough to clue one in to the high price of gas. Second, what precisely do the truckers, or anyone else for that matter, expect the governor to do? He cannot repeal the state tax on gas without legislative approval, and even if he could, that move would serve only as a salve, as I argued regarding John McCain's proposal to temporarily rescind the national gas tax.
Look, if someone is going to protest I'd rather have it be truck drivers than almost any other segment of the population. But given the paucity of actual policy that the state can enact to assuage the truckers' concerns, this amounts to a kind of play acting as a substitute for actual long range thinking on energy.
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