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Well, "impacts most prices, the most" is a kinda complicated statement to parse, so I don't know precisely what the original poster meant. But almost all produ
by michaelt 3y ago
Well, "impacts most prices, the most" is a kinda complicated statement to parse, so I don't know precisely what the original poster meant.
But almost all products on store shelves got there by truck. As do almost all the products in an Amazon warehouse. And almost all the inputs a factory uses will arrive by truck. Even the gas in the gas station arrives by truck.
Obviously, this doesn't apply to things like video games, netflix subscriptions, gym memberships or electricity. And obviously, trucking costs are lower per-item for items you can fit more of in a truck, and lower as a % of item cost for higher cost items. You'll notice the cost of trucking a lot more on a bag of onions than you will on an nvidia 4090.
If you count a weekly food shop of 50 items as 200 prices per month and a single netflix bill as 1 price per month, "impacts most prices, the most" could be true.
Politicians are generally very wary about things like gas tax increases because they don't just increase the amount households are paying at the gas station, they also increase the cost of the weekly grocery shop and many other things too.
- Ma8ee 3y agoEven for relatively cheap and bulky food like potato or onions I’m quite certain that trucking is only a small part of the price in the store.