[JDW11235]

With all due respect, you’re missing the price of diesel in every step in the manufacturing chain. The $200/load is assuming it’s one load of 200 gallons of gas the entire life of the good. If it’s a crop, it must use a tractor, be shipped somewhere to be processed, be shipped somewhere to be distributed to be made into something, must be distributed to a warhouse, and then distributed to for just in time delivery. Add to that a lot of other factors, such as that same process for packaging added in at the last steps. An additional factor is gas for purchasers. Gone are the days for many to just “run to the store to pick up _____” for me that’s a $5-$7 trip in fuel (depending on the store), up from the $3-$5 just a year or 2 ago. Not that I mind, I just don’t run to the store. But I am just trying to note that you’re missing MANY steps that require one to add the cost of energy in at various stages. Food for thought.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***With all due respect, you’re missing the price of diesel in every step in the manufacturing chain.***

I find it interesting that back in the high oil prices of the late 1970s and 1980s and ‘90s that diesel was lower in price than gasoline by several cents.

Today diesel is higher than gasoline.

[raybbr]

I WAS being simplistic in my calculations. I know that prices across the board are up and in each step of the process. It all adds up.

I did try to make the point that this administration and its anti-American business policies that are really to blame.

This bastard (I believe he is one in the true sense of the word) in the WH has no compunction whatsoever in seeing the U.S. brought to her knees.