Unlike a spike in gasoline, which hits drivers immediately, higher diesel costs take time to filter through the economy. Manufacturers and shippers pass them along; Amazon, UPS and FedEx have already added fuel surcharges. That means the latest increase is likely to keep pushing up prices for months.

 Diesel is the workhorse of the American economy. When a tractor plows a field, that’s diesel. When a truck carries freshly picked strawberries to the grocery store, that’s diesel, too. The school bus taking your kids to school, the bulldozer demolishing a house down the street and the dump truck hauling away your garbage: all diesel.

Gas prices get more attention, but diesel matters just as much for the broader economy. And right now, the outlook is grim. Prices are up more than 63% from a year ago and have set new records every day this week. On Friday diesel cost more than $6 for the first time on record, reaching a national average of $6.056 a gallon, according to AAA. You may not see those increases at your own pump, but you will eventually see them at the grocery store, and all through the economy.

Can you say $8/gallon diesel?

Thanks again, MAGA morons, as Boss Hogg’s Billionaire Buddies in Big Oil laugh all the way to their new yachts…..