WEBVTT - 10-29-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.440 This is America's Trucking Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.880 Ware. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.399 Thanks for tuning in on this Wednesday morning. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.720 Got to start off with a update on Hurricane Melissa. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.239 If the eye has approached and is on Jamaica and 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.600 it's a slow moving storm, and our hearts and prayers 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.159 go out to the folks of Jamaica because this is 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:34.040 a Category five hurricane, one of the strongest ones on record. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.960 And I, you know, I guess my geography is off, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.320 and I'm not all that aware or familiar with Jamaica. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.040 You know, you think in terms of all these commercials 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.239 you see for those resort areas, and all they ever 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.599 do is focus on the beaches and so on, and 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.520 you just think, okay, that's pretty much it. But the 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.920 the pictures and the stuff that I was seeing in 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.720 terms of how Jamaica is built, there's an awful lot 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.120 of hills there. And the one guy was talking about that, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.080 and I don't know if it's continuing to go on, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:13.240 but they said that Jamaica is basically a confluence of 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:18.680 all these I guess plates in terms of the you know, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.640 the shifting of the of the land, and that these 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:27.680 plates are pushing together and pushing the island actually higher 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.440 out of the ocean, and a lot of these buildings 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.640 are built on these hillsides, and with these steep hillsides, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.440 with the mount of rain that they're going to be getting, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.360 the amount of flow, I mean, you not only have 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.759 the surge of the of the hurricane coming in off 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.640 the water, but then you've got the foot of rain, 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.960 two feet of rain, et cetera, hitting these mountains and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.040 then coming down and flowing into the cities, and it 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.400 is just going to be an absolute mess. So again, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.480 our hearts and prayers are going out to those people. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.640 I was not aware of how high and how hilly 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.560 that area of Jamaica is. All I've ever seen is 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.280 pictures of the beaches and so on. Now, of course, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.240 once the hurricane Melissa is finished with them, moves on 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.520 to Dominican Republic and then across the way and then 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:23.880 goes into hopefully going to just hit the southeastern portion 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.920 of Cuba, but that is the area where Quantanamo Bay is, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.840 and then they're talking about where it moves on from 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.800 there on to the Bahamas. But again, the trajectory of 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.760 this storm looks like it's going to be heading northeast 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.000 away from this area, and depending upon how it turns 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.359 and what it turns and where it turns, hopefully it'll 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.760 miss part of the Bahamas and hopefully maybe just nick 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.600 the ends of Cuba. But of course we'll keep our 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.320 eye on that particular storm. It is just they were 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.280 telling you about that this hurricane season. Now, we have 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.520 not seen a direct landfall in the United States. This 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.480 hurricane season began June first and ends November thirtieth, knock 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.640 on wood that we won't have a direct hit. But 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.480 we have had some storm surges as a result of 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.000 some of these passing storms hitting the outer banks there 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.280 around Cape Hatteras and whatever, North Carolina, and I think 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.960 there were about twelve houses that are on stilts and 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.600 whatever because of the storm surge actually got destroyed. But 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.200 for the most part we have escaped. But they said 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.640 that this is one of the most active. The record 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.240 number of five category five hurricanes that have been in 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.440 the Atlantic Ocean the record this is going to be 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.120 the well so far going to be the second highest 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.320 at three hurricanes that are category five. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.480 Now the other two pretty much stayed out. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.840 In the middle of the ocean and then veered off, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.760 so you know, I don't care how many Category five 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.160 hurricanes there are out in the ocean that never make landfall. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:03.920 I mean, they're going to have ten out there for 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.040 all I care, just as long as it doesn't hit 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.080 the land. But apparently back in two thousand and five 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.000 there were actually four storms that got up to a 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.920 category five, so they still got about a little about 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.200 a month and a half left, a little over a 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.800 month and a couple of weeks anyway till the end 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.320 of the hurricane season, and hopefully we won't have any 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.640 more category five hurricanes, or if we're going to have them, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.800 stay the hell off the you know, out in the ocean, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.359 and so on. We talked yesterday about food prices and 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.400 talked about inflation, and the thing that kept catching my 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.599 eye just I am not downplaying the fact that there 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.720 is some inflation. Okay, when you're looking at hot prices 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.400 going up about two percent two and a half percent 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.479 on a yearly basis, that adds up over time. But 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.320 when you look at the way the spoon fed regurgitators 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.800 in the mainstream media are characterizing this, this is the 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.440 kind of talk, This is the kind of expectations I 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.400 would have seen from the spoon fed regurgitators. Back in 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.800 twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, when we were 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.640 having four and a half five and a half percent, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.920 we had one month where there was nine and a 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.760 half percent increase in inflation in the month of June 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.400 of twenty twenty two. We saw gas prices in twenty 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.720 twenty two getting as high as a national average across 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.160 the board. Now in California it was a lot higher, obviously, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.839 but across the board, the average gas price in the 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.239 United States was at five dollars a gallon. The average 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.640 price now is around three h three to three h four. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.279 I think what's the number three? Yeah, three oh four, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.240 And so prices have come down considerably from there, and 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.520 yet everybody wants to talk about, oh, fuel prices were 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.159 up four point one percent, whereas I'm looking at numbers 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.400 from last month and gas prices a month ago, we're 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.960 at three thirteen and we're down nine cents almost ten 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.200 cents a gallon from that. So where they're coming up 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.640 with these numbers and every time they do one of 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.440 these analysis, I think the Wall Street Journal, or was 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.520 that the New York Times did an analysis a couple 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.080 of couple of months ago, and they were saying, well, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.040 just take a focus on in New York at the 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.640 Walmart center there, and there are some prices that have 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:23.679 gone up fifty two percent. And pulling out that numbers, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.520 digging through the details and stuff, what we found or 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.880 what I just looked at in terms of that was 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:36.760 that this was a item imported from China. It was 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.360 a pot and pan set from Drew Barrymore called Beautiful 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.279 or whatever it was. That it went from ninety nine 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.440 dollars up to one hundred and forty nine dollars. And 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.680 this was an item imported from China. This isn't the 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.400 best cookware available. There aren't other alternatives, not like there's 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.160 not other alternatives out there. And if they want want 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.400 to raise those prices, if the Chinese labor there, and 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.200 we talked about at the time, how. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.839 The labor over there is so cheap that. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.520 They're only paying something along the lines of between five 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.559 dollars and seven dollars an hour, whereas in the United 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.080 States we're paying thirty six thirty seven dollars an hour 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.040 and including benefits and so on. But that five dollars 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.240 and seven dollars over in China includes no benefits, no 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.840 vacation time, no workers, got none of this stuff. And 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.040 yet our employers over here are paying thirty seven dollars 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:36.160 on average for employees in terms of benefits and everything else. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:37.680 Now that's across the board. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.000 And so with that kind of a margin, the Chinese 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.080 companies that are manufacturing these items, they could absorb some 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.920 of these tariffs the importer. The exporter could absorb some 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.000 of it the import. And we've gone through this scenario. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.400 So it was a basically the bottom line is a 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.400 BS argument. BS article that was just trying to stir 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.920 the pot. And I keep saying that if I keep 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.960 looking at these stories from the spoon feder regurgitators in 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.640 the mainstream media, and it appears as though that they 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.560 are trying to talk down the economy, talk down what's 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.640 going on as far as economic policy is concerned, and 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.240 they are trying to manufacture recession, and they are failing 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.120 miserably because things are humming along. We see that as 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.559 far as the unemployment rate, we see that as numbers 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.840 of the jobs created, although it's flat, there aren't very 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.400 many layoffs, and we see the unemployment numbers where those 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.679 aren't increasing dramatically, and when you see two percent increase 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.840 in prices and stuff like that across the board, it's 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.040 pretty much on average of what they were talking about before. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.920 And we'll get into a lot of this because we 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.640 want to talk a little bit more about it. But 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.199 the one thing that popped out it seems like when 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.840 they're talking about food prices, all they were, you know, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.400 at the beginning of the year, all it was was eggs, eggs, eggs, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.600 eggs are up forty two percent. Fit Trump's not bringing 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.440 those is down. Well, now that those prices are down 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.320 compared to last year, all of a sudden, well they've 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.080 got to shift categories and talk about coffee and beef. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:09.160 We'll pick this up. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.480 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network, seven hundred WLW. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:14.559 I do. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.120 This is the briefing repord on America's Trucking Network on 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.800 seven hundred WLW. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.640 NASCAR holds its Championship weekend in Phoenix. 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What that does is it pulls out 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.120 the more volatile items in the inflation category or the 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.960 stuff that is bought on. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:14.800 A regular basis. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.880 And generally the two big categories there are food and 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.440 energy because depending upon the year, depending you know, the 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.720 time of the year, you've gotten the springtime, certain fruits, vegetables, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.480 et cetera that are readily available in the fall, and 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.000 so on, so those prices will fluctuate. Energy itself fluctuates 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.920 depending upon geopolitical issues, what's going on in terms of 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.200 the sector, whether there's different refineries that are closing down 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.480 or shutting down for maintenance, imports, storms on the seat, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.920 so all that's volatile. So they pull that out and 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.920 say okay, put those off to the side, and then 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.559 look at the other core items in the as far 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:54.840 as inflation is concerned. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.720 When you add that back and they're talking. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.319 About the biggest driver of inflation this past was in 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.920 the food area, and they concentrate on two items. They 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.000 concentrated on coffee and beef. Well, it's almost like you 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.480 have to pull those items off to the side as 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.240 well to get a full idea or you know, because 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.120 of the volatility in those areas, to see what the 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.520 actual food prices are. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.760 And I just got curious. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.920 I thought, well, you know, they keep talking about tariffs 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 adding to coffee prices. They keep talking about this, Well, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.439 what else is adding to the coffee prices? So I 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.400 dug into it a little bit. We here in the 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.439 United States, between Hawaii and uh, what was it, Puerto Rico, 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.840 we only generate about one percent of the amount of 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.480 coffee that is consumed in the United States. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.680 The rest of it has to be imported. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.800 So already we've got a situation where that stuff has 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.720 to travel. But where you have a situation down in 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.480 Brazil and Columbia, and you have these southern South American 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.280 countries that produce the majority of the coffee. Now there's 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.480 somehow that comes out of Vietnam and the southeast and 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.560 so on. But the majority of the stuff that we 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.720 drink here in the United States is from South America, 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.240 and when you have a drought situation down there, that 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.320 means their crops aren't producing as much, so there's not 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.400 as much supply. And when you know, obviously, you know 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.640 that when there's smaller supply and the demand is the same, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.840 the prices are going to go up. And yes, the 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.320 tariffs have added to that to a certain percentage. But 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.800 when you take into consideration the costs we've documented here 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.800 on the program. We had the contracts that were signed 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.640 by the West Coast and East Coast dock workers bringing 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.040 those goods in, that's going to add to the product. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:53.080 Plus you have fuel prices and stuff being transported. Plus 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.920 you have the drought down there in South America in 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.560 these coffee bean areas, and that's adding to it. So 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.520 break picking those out the amount of tariffs that are 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.400 added to this. Now they keep saying that coffee prices 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.520 are up. Okay, they're saying coffee prices are up from 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.080 last year by nineteen percent. Now they're saying also that 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.720 the tariffs on these on coffee is somewhere in the 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.240 neighborhood on certain countries about forty percent. So if coffee 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.240 prices are going up only nineteen percent. One of the 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.240 things is is that I've talked about, and we've talked 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.160 about on this program a number of times that because 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.480 of the production costs, because of the availability, the big 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.120 margins in some of these areas, some of these people 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.560 are some of these companies are actually absorbing these increases. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.960 As far as tariffs, now, there's been some movement because 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.760 there is a program that if you've got rare things 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.400 that are not actually available in the United States and 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.280 they have to be imported, they can be exempted from 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.240 any tariffs on that particular country and those can be eliminated. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.840 There's a push now to eliminate the tariffs on coffee, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.280 which would be good. But in the story that I read, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:08.160 they talk about this. Nicky Bravo, the cow co owner 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.760 of Momentum Coffee in Chicago, raised her prices by fifteen 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:18.080 percent recently as to her coffee prices, and she talks 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.360 about how, you know, she's paying fifteen percent more for 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.640 the coffee coming into the country and coming into her business, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.120 but she's also roasting some of her own beans to 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:33.240 try to offset that then you've got the added increase 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.400 in terms of the sleeves, the cups, and all the 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:40.000 different supplies that's got to be added into it. Plus 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:44.480 the fact that she has her operation of her stores 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:50.360 in Chicago and Chicago back in twenty twenty put forth 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:55.000 a new minimum wage law where the minimum wage in 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.720 twenty twenty was thirteen dollars an hour and has now 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.080 jumped up to sixteen dollars and sixty cents an hour. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.399 In July the first part of July, that price of 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.320 the minimum wage for their stores or for those companies 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:18.000 that have employees went up two and a half percent. Now, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.920 when we have inflation at two and a half percent 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.359 and we've got wages going up by two and a 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.560 half percent, doesn't it stand a reason that some of 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.639 the focus on this, and my point is what we 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.720 need to do is we need to start not you know, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.520 the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. Well, have 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.280 you believe that all these price increases are a result 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.120 of tariffs, Whereas. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.040 When you look at what is pushing. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.439 The prices here of tariffs, it's very low compared to 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.200 the other things. In terms of what we have here 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.760 increase in minimum wage two and a half percent for 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.080 these producers, the increase in terms of the paper supplies 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.720 and so on. So there are other facts in here 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.760 that are adding to these prices, and to blame it 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.000 all on tariffs, or to try to blame it on 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:11.360 teriffs is misleading at the least and probably intentional on 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.840 the part of the spoon, federalgirdstairs and mainstream media. Again, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.160 it's not like we don't know that prices are going up, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.160 but you know when there are other things that are 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.800 causing that, whether it be drought, whether it be the 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.320 wages that are being paid, Let's be truthful about that 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.520 and talk about that as opposed to trying to pass 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.879 it off as far as tariffs are concerned. But I 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.639 thought it was interesting. I mean, back in twenty twenty, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.720 the effective rate was the minimum wage back then was 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.800 ten dollars an hour, and then they immediately in twenty 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.280 twenty one raise that to fifteen dollars an hour, and 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.320 then from that point on two and a half percent, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.800 depending upon inflation, was raised every year since then, so 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.520 they jumped from fifteen dollars and eighty cents an hour 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.600 up to sixteen dollars and twenty cents an hour as 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.560 of July the first. So when they talk about the 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.959 price of coffee and stuff, I mean they're talking about that, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.200 you know, these restaurants they're saying is September, the cost 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.720 the average price for a cup of coffee was three 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.679 dollars and fifty four cents compared to three dollars and 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.520 forty five cents last year. Well, that's up two point 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.520 six percent. So again, even with the increased terrace as 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.280 far as coffee, the drought and so on, a two 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.120 point six percent increase. But where were these people, Where 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:40.040 were these people whining about inflation? Back in twenty one 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.400 twenty two, we had gas prices go up a full 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:48.000 dollar a gallon from the beginning of well from January 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.920 of twenty twenty to the January of twenty twenty one, 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.439 and then when Russia invaded Ukraine it went up another 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:55.440 dollar twenty five. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.200 Where was the outrage? Then? 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.879 All we heard was, Oh, it's transitory, it's going to go, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.200 it's only temporary. We don't have to worry about it. Well, now, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.120 all of a sudden, when prices are coming, you don't 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.560 hear anything about eggs anymore. Do you eggs have come 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:14.840 down considerably because of eradicating the bird flew and then 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.399 some of these I mean, you know, if you have 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.240 to if you have to kill an tire flock of 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.359 birds and you don't have chickens, you're not going to 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.879 have very many eggs. So there are reasons behind this, 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.240 and not just because of an economy that's going to 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.119 hell in a handbasket. I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Truck and 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.040 Network seven hundred WLW. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:42.919 News, Traffic and Weather. News Radio seven hundred wl W, Cincinnati. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:49.040 Republican infighting spills out into the open on day twenty 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.440 eight of the shutdown. It's your twelve thirty report. I'm 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.880 Travis Lair breaking now. 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