Fuding Up: Rising fuel cost impacts more than transportation

摘要

As a contract grower and shipper, Steve Theobald isn't as worried about what it will cost him to deliver his product in a few months as he is about the effect increasing fuel prices are having on everything else associated with his business. "The indirect effect is even more difficult to predict," said Theobald, of R & G Potato Company in American Falls, Idaho. "Everything we buy is freighted." R & G, a supplier to the potato chip industry, puts together its contracts months in advance, Theobald said, typically accounting for the variable nature of fuel when constructing those contracts. I