Willa Rubin
speaker
158 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6d ago
Willa Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dale Heminger runs a dairy and cabbage farm in upstate New York, and diesel is his fuel.
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The cost for a gallon of diesel is up about two dollars over the past year.
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That means fuel has cost Heminger close to forty-five thousand dollars for a tank of ten thousand gallons.
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Last year it was twenty-five thousand dollars.
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And because crop prices are often set in advance, there isn't much wiggle room.
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He says they're racing for the harvest and for the next six months to be very tight financially.
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Willa Rubin
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Much of our supply chain runs on diesel, trucks, trains, tractors, nearly 90% of school buses.
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So when the price of diesel goes up, it hurts across the economy.
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And the price has been going up for several reasons.
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One, the Strait of Hormuz.
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Not much oil is getting through.
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Two, countries around the world have scaled back their exports of diesel.
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Three,
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Jet fuel.
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The war drove up the price, so refiners made more of it, and we got less diesel.
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Finally, reason four, Ukraine has been firing at Russian refineries, taking many offline.
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Willa Rubin, NPR News.
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