{"id":1048,"date":"2006-05-05T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/i_know_americans_are_hurting_--_i_see_it_at_the_greenmarket.html"},"modified":"2006-05-05T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T17:54:18","slug":"i_know_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/i_know_american.html","title":{"rendered":"I Know Americans Are Hurting &#8212; I See It At The Greenmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AM New York reminds everyone that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/newyork\/am-gas0505,0,6809927.story?coll=ny-nycnews-headlines\">higher gas prices affect you no matter how much you use the subway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With crude oil trading at about $70 barrel and gas going for more than $3 a gallon, the cost of food and other basic goods will probably go up, too. Oil prices affect everything from shampoo and your rent to diapers and air fares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all go to the grocery store, and the tomatoes and cucumbers have to be trucked in somehow,&#8221; said Mike Davis, an economics and finance professor at Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. &#8220;It&#8217;s useful to think of plastics and pharmaceutical goods too. Even though the material costs are a relatively small proportion of the total costs, an awful lot of things you see are petroleum-based, from paints to plastics. You can go on with these lists forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morse Pitts, a Montgomery, N.Y., farmer who sells salad greens at the Union Square Greenmarket, said rising oil prices have affected all of his operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything costs us more; our seed costs us more, the machinery that we use runs on gas and the plastic containers we use are more because of the petro-chemicals used to make them,&#8221; Pitts said.<\/p>\n<p>Pitts used to charge $5.50 a quarter-pound for a container of small greens, but beginning Wednesday he had to charge $6 so he could keep the price of large greens the same.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AM New York reminds everyone that higher gas prices affect you no matter how much you use the subway: With crude oil trading at about $70 barrel and gas going for more than $3 a gallon, the cost of food and other basic goods will probably go up, too. Oil prices affect everything from shampoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}