Honking against the price of fuel
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- June
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  Truck drivers have arrived in Albany, and they’re honking their horns in unison as part of their protest against fuel prices. They don’t have trailers attached, and most vehicles are flying multiple American flags. A number of onlookers are clapping as they drive by. Police are hard at work trying to control regular traffic and point truck drivers in the right direction. Â
  Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, Rensselaer County, is scheduled to speak to the truckers at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Capitol. The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, is in favor of suspending the state gas tax this summer to relieve gas prices, but the Democrat-led Assembly is not. Gov. David Paterson has said he would not sign legislation unless it could guarantee that the price of gas would go down.  
  According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in New York is $4.29, compared with $5.13 for a gallon of diesel. The national average is $4.07 for a gallon of gas and $4.79 for diesel. Last year, those figures were $3.00 and $2.90, respectively.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
That was beautiful. Its scary that my cheeseurger might have traveled in a reefer that ran out of fuel around Cleavland. Things are going to get interesting.Keep On Truckn