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Arkansas truck stop owner joins fuel protest
Arkansas truck stop owner joins fuel protest
5/28/08
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The owner of an Arkansas truck stop has stopped pumping diesel and gas, saying he’s protesting prices along with truckers. Don Shamsie’s Blackwell Truck Stop is on Interstate 40 about 30 miles north of Little Rock.

“We felt we needed to take a stand,” Shamsie told “Land Line Now.” “We know that the independent truckers out there are barely making it; they’re struggling to survive. A lot of them cannot park their trucks because they’ve got to get their revenue going.”
Shamsie added: “We’ve taken a stand to stop selling fuel to see if we can get the attention of the politicians who we felt have sold Americans out.”

Shamsie said he thinks most politicians are in the pocket of the oil companies that contribute to their campaigns.
As for how he’ll survive without pumping fuel, Shamsie pointed out that at the price he’s been paying for fuel and for credit card transactions he wasn’t making money anyway.
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lets help convince them all
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This is a stupid idea
Whats the trucker going to do
Run on fumes

A local station in my town did this and it back fired
Instead of getting attaboys, people decided not to take a chance that he will decide to stop selling fuel and go some where else
I realize people have short memories and probably will come back
But how many truckers will cross his stop off their list of places to shop
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