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Economy
Mike Rowe Says Truckers "Aren't Buying Putin Price Hike" Spin As Diesel Hits New High
2022-05-04
[Zero] Baltimore native Mike Rowe became famous as the Dirty Jobs jobs guy on the Discovery Channel. Now he's filming the second season of "How America Works" on Fox Bussiness, showcasing the many individuals that work around the clock to keep the US economy humming.

During Monday's "Fox and Friends" show, Rowe sat down with Steve Doocy to discuss out-of-control inflation. He said the tuckers he knows aren't buying the "Putin Price Hike" narrative.

As the national average for diesel prices at the pump jump to a record high of $5.32 a gallon, Rowe said truckers are sending him pictures and videos of them filling up, spending more than a thousand dollars at a time.
"I get video almost every day now from people who we featured on 'Dirty Jobs" and 'How America Works.'

"They're just sending me videos of them at the gas pump and some of them are filling up 18-wheelers. And, I’m not kidding you, $1,100, $1,200.

"Most people, all we can think about is the price for us at a relative terms know it's awful.

"When you put $1,200 in your gas tank and just six months ago it was costing you $600 or 700, the exponential reality of it is starting to sink in. You just can't walk that back. It touches every single thing that matters in this country. From food production to transportation ... all of it," Rowe explained.

Doocy then asked: "Are truckers buying the 'Putin Price Hike'?"

Rowe responded by saying, "The ones I know aren't... A guy said to me the other day, it's like ... falling down the stairs in slow motion. We're watching it happen. It's happening in real-time, and it's not just diesel. It's not just gasoline ..."

He then explains that the rising cost of energy and fertilizer has resulted in higher food prices.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Wife returning from road trip last November, "What is with all the FJB written on truck trailers?"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-05-04 16:39  

#4  

We are seeing $5.69+ a gallon for Diesel at most pumps.

It has even caused a new oddity.
We have been seeing more Semi-rigs dropping their trailers in parking lots and lining up at SAM's Club pumps to get refueled at $4.59 a gallon.
Or purchasing tax-exempt Farm Diesel which is about $0.50 to $0.75 cents cheaper a gallon and illegal to use.

Given many long-haul semi-Rigs have fuel tanks holding as much as 300 gallons, that's a BIG savings.

SIMPLE LOGIC
Higher Diesel prices mean higher delivery costs, higher food and anything else costs.

The Liberals, Socialists and Democrats Own this problem when they went Anti-Oil day . "WE DID THAT" memec
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-05-04 07:30  

#3  WATCH: Truck drivers express concern over rising diesel costs
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-04 05:59  

#2  He then explains that the rising cost of energy and fertilizer has resulted in higher food prices.
...and it will get much, much worse.
Posted by: magpie   2022-05-04 02:48  

#1  Mike Rowe Says Truckers "Aren't Buying Putin Price Hike"

Neither is anyone else.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-04 00:37  

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