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Another item for you to look

Submitted by Guest on November 9, 2007 - 05:40.

Another item for you to look into...because quite honestly, I believe this has a much larger impact on the final price we pay at the grocery store than the price of corn or wheat or any other single raw ingredient.

Every single item in your home has been hauled by a truck at some point in it's life. Most items are hauled by truck many times in it's trek from raw ingredient to our shopping cart.

Those trucks on average use one gallon of fuel for every 4-6 miles they drive.

As fuel prices rise, those shipping costs are passed directly on to us : the consumer. Right now trucking companies are paying huge fuel surcharges to owner operators just to keep those trucks on the road - a company I just looked at pays an additional fuel surcharge of 43 cents for every mile - that's over and above the regular shipping fee - for a 2000 mile trip that adds up to an additional 860 dollars for that single load.

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