Owen Tucker-Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
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For a lot of these U.S.
companies, fuel is the thing.
They're quite frustrated.
I mean, now, you know, it's been many months of this, of a conflict that a lot of these businesses were hoping they could wait out for just a couple months.
Especially considering, you know, there's been all this messaging from the administration about fuel costs coming down tomorrow.
And so a lot of these businesses are now kind of reaching, I think, a breaking point.
He's a third generation farmer in rural Pennsylvania.
And, you know, he has only in the past five years increased his beef prices around once.
So he's very against price increases, even when he sees the cost that he pays swing up and down.
He really cares about his relationships with his customers.
And so even though
The cost that he's paying to get, for instance, hay trucked in from a few counties away is up, you know, 15, 20%.
He's just going to eat that for now.
It's extremely important.
A lot of these farmers are A, paying for fertilizer, B, they have high transport costs, they're shipping in hay, and C, they're often paying to ship their own things to their customers.
So you might be paying energy costs three or more times.
So he'll have a little bit less profit on the items that he sells, the milk, the pork, the beef.
But the way he thinks about it is this is a thing that you do now so that customers continue working with you.
And when this ends, you'll be rewarded for it, for being the guy that stuck it out.
The calculus is often that they know how stretched consumers are, and especially middle and low-income consumers.
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