US truckers have started an ad hoc protest across the country over recent hikes in fuel prices, reports AP.

Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation’s oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination.

On New Jersey’s Turnpike, southbound rigs ‘as far as the eye can see’ were moving at about 20 mph near Newark, said Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando. Other truckers had gathered at a service area near Newark chanting and protesting.

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“One of the biggest hurdles to the U.S. getting energy right is that the mainstream media infotainment circus has not prepared people to connect the dots of what they already know. Think about your own daily observations.

“People ’see’ information that tells them how much oil, for example, is in the hands of the national oil companies of many foreign nations. But the mainstream media (MSM) — and a lot of U.S. politicians — corporately hate Big Oil so much that they won’t inform viewers and readers how little control the name-brand players have anymore.

“Really, in a lot of respects, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Chevron are now bit players in oil. The MSM are stuck in the 1970s, in the thought processes of the disco era. Really, the MSM need to lose the polyester leisure suits.”