The Osgood File. Sponsored in part by Tempurpedic. I'm Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network. Petroleum comes from under the ground.
Milk comes from Cows.
Yet the price of a barrel of petroleum is not only reflected in the price of every gallon gasoline but also in the very much a part of the price of every quart of milk. It is not only the cost of delivering the bottles or cartons of milk to the stores that is included in what the consumers have to pay. The trucks on the highway carrying milk from point A to point B do burn diesel fuel, of course. But the energy-milk connection begins way before that. The cream in your coffee and the milk on your breakfast cereal ALSO involve an expenditure of power.