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Grant Jackson Conservative
“We need to bring down the cost of diesel fuel. Farmers and truckers still rely on diesel because electric farm equipment and big trucks are not ready yet. High diesel prices make groceries cost more for everyone.”
“Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the technical nature of the member’s question. To be quite honest with him, though, most people are not driving diesel vehicles. The cost of diesel prices going up is impacting farmers, whose equipment runs on diesel, and the truckers who ship the food. There are examples of semi-tractor-trailers that are running on batteries, but the range is limited. I have yet to see a combine or tractor in the field running on batteries. When the technology gets there, that will be great. Maybe someday that will happen, but in the meantime, tractors and combines have to run on diesel fuel. We need to bring the cost of diesel fuel down so that food costs less at the grocery store in the member’s constituency and everybody else’s constituencies.”
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the technical nature of the member’s question. To be quite honest with him, though, most people are not driving diesel vehicles. The cost of diesel prices going up is impacting farmers, whose equipment runs on diesel, and the truckers who ship the food. There are examples of semi-tractor-trailers that are running on batteries, but the range is limited. I have yet to see a combine or tractor in the field running on batteries. When the technology gets there, that will be great. Maybe someday that will happen, but in the meantime, tractors and combines have to run on diesel fuel. We need to bring the cost of diesel fuel down so that food costs less at the grocery store in the member’s constituency and everybody else’s constituencies.