This picture is what Australians call a "Road Train." This is a small one.Tonight I sent the following e-mail to Senator Bill Nelson, Senator Mel Martinez, and Representative Corrine Brown. This time, I used http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
to formulate and send my beliefs to my various representatives in Congress.
Here is what I sent:
Thank you for using Gun Owners of America Mail System
Message sent to the following recipients:
Senator Nelson
Senator Martinez
Representative Brown
Message text follows:
My Name
My Address
My State and Zip Code
May 14, 2008
[recipient address was inserted here]
[recipient name was inserted here],
Dear Senator or Representative as addressed
In my car tonight I was listening to a proposal for larger trucks to move on our highways.
I do not think this is either energy conscious or safe.
I believe the most economical way to move large shipments across this nation is by railroad. The railroads should move the freight from one distribution point to another where the freight is then placed on a truck for local delivery or a ship for overseas delivery.
Other nations run rail systems with efficiency and effectiveness and we can also.
Railroads do not damage the interstate highway systems like large trucks do. Once the road is damaged, Congress fails to provide the increased maintenance costs caused by large trucks.
I believe that Congress, shippers, unions, railroads, airlines and truckers should work together to coordinate a useful system to move goods around this country.
Sincerely,
Signed
Home Phone Number
Soap Box Ravings feels sending these e-mails to the folks who could do something, if they were not so busy pandering to voters, is a lot more effective than putting your name on a e-mail and hoping whoever is the number 1000 person on the list will then forward the petition to some congressman or woman somewhere. The secret here is the pandering politician really is not concerned unless you donate money or secondarily can vote them out.
