Originally Posted by
werner.reiche
When you increase the cost of anything basic to production or manufacturing, you increase the price of everything across the board.
When you increase the cost of fuel for example, you've increased the cost of:
- the farmer's overhead
- crop inputs
- use of machinery to plant and harvest
- transport of produce from farm to processing
- transport of product from processing to the store
Similar when you increase the cost of other elements like electricity or taxes.
It's all a very regressive scheme.
