Sun, Nov 22 2009
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High gas prices ripple through economy By RONNIE ELLISCNHI News Service “Before, the overtime just about covered all my gas costs, but now overtime is zero or very close to it.”
Boggs worries about how his neighbors and older people will pay their bills. Everything costs more — milk, orange juice and now Jackson Rural Electric Cooperative has announced an increase in utility rates. “I knew it was coming, but I didn’t expect 9 and a half percent,” Boggs said. “What are people who are on a fixed income going to do? I pray for these people less fortunate than us.” Boggs said he drives less when he’s at home on weekends, they don’t dine out as much and he uses air conditioning in his house less frequently. The pain is reaching into some unlikely places. Daniel Yoder is an Amish farmer who lives on the Barren County-Warren County line. He owns 13 horses which he uses to plow his fields and travel by buggy, grows tobacco, doesn’t use electricity and raises much of his own food. But even the Amish buy some food items and other supplies. “We see it in groceries and things like that,” Yoder, 51, said. “I notice it in the cost of fertilizer — I call it extremely high. It puts a squeeze on us.” Yoder said the higher prices for fertilizer, groceries and the 15 gallons of fuel he uses each month to operate wood-cutting machinery have forced him to allow his sons to “hire out as labor” more frequently. “It’s just getting harder to make ends meet — for everybody,” he said. Ronnie Ellis writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort. He can be reached by e-mail at rellis@cnhi.com. 
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