Shipmates, Here's a datapoint: trucking traffic here in Charleston SC (major shipping port) has dramatically increased in the last 6 months, so I'd be willing to bet that demand is up across the country. When I moved here in '99, just a few months before the bubble burst, truck traffic was huge, and it almost immediately dried up at the crash. It's been slowly coming back since then, but much more noticably so in recent months.
I don't buy the BioD Conspiracy Theory, because it will encourage BioD producers by providing an easier price level to 'meet or beat'. BigOil (undoubtably part of the vast right-wing conspiracy) will then lose business when existing customers leave, which hurts a lot more than losing potential future customers. Very respectfully, /s/ LCDR Meade M. Dillon, USNR 85 300TD 321k miles (Euro 5spd) '96 Infiniti I30 148k miles (wife's 5spd) '73 Balboa 20 'Sanctification' Charleston SC "Most men would rather die, than think. Many do." Bertrand Russell
