From Maryland to California, gas prices are keeping people awake and keeping them at home.
Like those of most Americans, Dennis Johnson’s fuel costs have doubled. He used to spend $25,000 on fuel, and now he spends $50,000 — every month.
Johnson is a sixth-generation Michigan dairy farmer who also raises beef, corn, alfalfa, oats, and sorghum on 5,000 acres. His operations are extensive, with more than 20 tractors, more than 15 semi-trucks, 50 employees, and a trucking business that transports feed, manure, sand, and the farm’s milk production. The skyrocketing cost of fuel isn’t the first blow to the business either; it’s just hitting them when they’re already down.
“Things have been challenging since Covid,” Johnson told The Federalist, explaining that the farm’s milk is mostly used in restaurants’ cheese and custard, and those markets almost completely dried up for months during the height of the lockdowns. “There were some dark days.”
Now supply-chain issues are compromising operations too. Johnson said equipment and parts that used to be generally available can now take six months to arrive.
Just the cost of soybeans and corn to feed the cattle is going to cost an additional $1.5 million or more this year, Johnson estimates. “Fertilizer has doubled in price and we don’t even know if we can get what we need. Our local suppliers have little to none in stock. Chemicals have also gone through the roof. Roundup for example has gone up six times,” he said.
These skyrocketing fuel costs are not surprising, given the Biden administration’s radical pushes for green energy and its relinquishing of U.S. energy independence since his very first day in office. But while Biden can try to pretend it’s all Russia’s fault and say he “can’t do much right now,” as he did on Tuesday, millions of Americans across the country are barely keeping their heads above water. The cost of mobility is completely unsustainable.
This One’s on Biden
“Directing affecting families” could be used to describe all of Biden’s disastrous policies at home and abroad. Families are directly affected by green energy dreams and empty shelves just as they have been affected by joblessness over vaccine mandates and the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Americans are poorer, weaker, sadder, and unhealthier than they were before Biden took office, and no amount of blame-shifting by the president, his press secretary, and the Big Tech and media spin machines can deflect from the fact that he owns this reality. Coast to coast, gas prices are keeping people awake and keeping them at home — which is to say that stressed and isolated is the state of America with Biden at the helm.