> Transportation costs dominate the cost of most consumables That was surprising to me and, uh, no, they don't, unless you're considering building materials (i

> Transportation costs dominate the cost of most consumables That was surprising to me and, uh, no, they don't, unless you're considering building materials (i.e. rocks). It's not easy to find numbers, but for milk in Germany, it appears to be around 10%, about the same as packaging. Milk should be worse than many other products because it's cheap and heavy, on the other hand it's rarely shipped over great distances. [1] Another report [2] considers transportation costs relative to the value of the goods transported, which isn't exactly the same as "how much of the consumer price is transportation", but surely related, and has 2.7% for foodstuffs (and 55% for rocks). I mean, I'm sure it varies widely for different kinds of consumables, but overall, transporting stuff is cheap. I think even in terms of CO2, which is certainly underrepresented in cost currently, production dominates transport for most goods in a grocery store, apart from produce shipped by air. [1] https://www.agrarheute.com/tier/rind/78-cent-fuer-trinkmilch-so-setzt-preis-zusammen-440859 https://www.agrarheute.com/tier/rind/78-cent-fuer-trinkmilch... [2] https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/G/MKS-Wissenschaftliche-Untersuchungen/studie-anteil-transportkosten.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/G/MKS-Wissenschaft... (Tabelle 8)