The Secret to Decreasing Food Costs

Decrease the costs of the food from wholesalers and market operations, mostly utilities. Decrease the thievery, which is the unseen cost of retailing.

To decrease the cost of wholesale products, decrease the cost of transportation and packaging. That again means decreasing the cost of Diesel fuel and electricity. Also, being as Diesel is the main way electricity is generated, then decreasing the cost of Diesel would decrease the cost of generating electricity. As a side note, if you want electric cars, they don’t work without electricity. There will not be nearly enough electricity without the Diesel.

To be sure, the main source of vegetables is the farms. Indeed, I know of no other place. Guess what? Farms use electricity. Guess what, they use tons of Diesel fuel to run the tractors. They also use petroleum products for fertilizer and pest control, tons of it.

The simplest way of decreasing the cost of food… DRILL BABY DRILL. Trump proved it works and dems try to ignore that proof. While Trump was president, the price of food, and most other products, remained steady. It is only when Old Joe stopped the drilling prices for food, and most other products went up.

As a side note, regulations and laws increases legal costs at every level in the food chain. That benefits the lawyers. Those that help to produce the food and those that buy it, not so much.

A Matter of Record

To save repeating myself, let me refer you back to my post Oct 9, 2018 about truth.  Some may have already read it.

During the Republican convention of 2008, Lt. Gov. Steele said, “Drill baby, Drill.”  Later, during the vice presidential debate, Gov Palin repeated it.  Some time later, Obama said it wouldn’t do any good.  At or about that time, the price of oil was $142 per barrel.  Then they started drilling in North Dakota and Texas…  I guess a few other places too, to the dismay of Obama.  The point is, Obama refused to release federal land for drilling.  Indeed, he went out of his way to keep people from drilling.

Oddly, the price went down briefly to $26.21 in 2016.  Currently, though the usage has gone way up, the price is currently about $63.  Moreover, we are virtually self-sufficient, something that I am sure frustrates Obama to no end.

Now, this leads me to believe one of two things.  Obama purposely lied, or he was totally ignorant.  I don’t know which scares me more.  However, given his history, I assume he was lying.  He is the same man that said he had shovel ready projects.  (I would still like to know where those billions went that were appropriated.  I suspect it is lining the pockets of his friends.)  He is also the same man that said you can keep your same doctor.  By the way, he is the same man that has me paying a thousand dollars a month for my wife’s health insurance.

Do you really want to believe that man, an admitted liar.  He himself said, “I guess those projects weren’t shovel ready after all.”  I don’t think I want to believe the man.  Now he is campaigning for his cohorts.   Some people actually believe him.  Some have college degrees.  Can’t figure that out.

It is clear that he just wanted the price of energy to go up so that he could pay for his green projects.  By the way, his green projects didn’t work, none of them.  They were all flops.  Not only that, the windmills are still killing birds, including the protected eagles.