DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) – Senator Ron Johnson stopped in De Pere on Friday for a roundtable discussion with local truckers and trucking companies regarding the difficulties they’re facing.
Johnson wanted to get an idea of what things look like on the ground level for those working to keep the supply chain going amid concerns over delays and rising gas prices.
“It’s really good to hear their concerns of the difficulties they’re having owning and operating smaller trucking companies,” Johnson said. “They’re highly concerned about fuel prices, and we’re seeing diesel trucks costing $1,000 or more to fill their tanks.”
Johnson agrees that most safety regulations should remain in place, but questions the efficiency of other regulations that are slowing down the process.
“Just the inefficiencies of some of these government regulations really, really need to be examined so that, quite honestly, we’ve got enough truckers to carry loads and we can end some of the supply chain issues were were dealing with,” Johnson told WTAQ News. “We should end the Democrat war on fossil fuel. It’s been a bipartisan goal of Democrats and Republicans for decades to be energy independent, and we pretty well achieved that under the previous administration…President Biden, for example, canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. Which, by the way, cost 2,000 good-paying union jobs for Michels Company, a good Wisconsin company!”
Johnson says it’s important to recognize and accept the fact that fossil fuels are needed, and the U.S. is better off producing resources themselves than depending on ‘tyrants’ like Vladimir Putin.
“These self-inflicted wounds from our war on fossil fuels are very expensive…This is hitting every Wisconsinite in the pocketbook, this is hurting every American, so in the Democrat war on fossil fuels,” Johnson said. “During COVID, they suspended all kinds of rules and regulations because we had to keep our economy going. But now those rules regulations are right back in place in the middle of of supply shortages…It’s not like we solved the problems coming out of all of these shutdowns.”
To reduce inflation and increase the supply of goods, Johnson says it’s important to recognize that transportation, like trucking, is vital.
“We need to have transportation running as efficiently as it possibly can, and right now, that’s not the case because of government regulation, because of the Democrats war on fossil fuel, which is driving up the cost of a diesel fuel for these folks,” Johnson said.
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