In a news conference at the outdoors Eastern Market, Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill) says rising energy costs are straining farmers.
Durbin notes that in Illinois, the cost of agriculture has increased by $24 an acre because of rising energy prices, which means that a farmer working 1000 acres now suffers $24,000 coming off the bottom line. He says it is an insult that the Republican’s solution for this problem is to write $100 check to farming families (:36).
May 3, 2006
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