Reply #4: Of course they are. The cost of everything is going up. [View All]

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As the cost of oil climbs, so does the cost of everything else. Oil not only runs the trucks that deliver our food and other products, it runs the mills that make the steel that make the trucks - and the highways, and the grocery stores, and farm equipment, and the fertilizer, and irrigation systems. And all those things are powered by oil.

Around and around we go. Everything we buy is produced with the help of oil and transported with the help of oil.

One solution is to try to buy locally. Shop at farmer's markets and coops, where they sell food that is produced close to where you buy it, reducing the reliance on oil to get it into your hands.