The two eighteen-wheelers were all that remained of what had once been a fleet of as many as fifty trucks. Mid-American Trucking, the company Sam owned, once hauled freight between Dallas and cities all over the country, from Spokane, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and from Portland, Maine, to San Diego, California, and from Canada to Mexico. That all ended shortly after Ohmshidi took office and decreed that fossil fuels could no longer be used. Mid-American, like every other freight and passenger line, went bankrupt. Sam did manage to hang on to two trucks in the hope and belief that at some point Ohmshidi would see the error of his policies, and fossil fuels would once again be allowed. That did happen, but it was almost too late, and now businesses all over the country were struggling hard to make a comeback. Because Sam had managed to hang on to the two trucks, he was slowly beginning to rebuild a successful business. He remembered reading something once which stated that, “if all the money in America were to be confiscated and redistributed evenly, within a year those who had been rich would again be rich and those who had been poor would again be poor.”
