Their entire business model is built on keeping prices and labor costs low; that's why, when it comes to health care, they would prefer to have taxpayers pay for it than to pay for it themselves. Clearly they can afford it.

It costs $55 to $60 to fill this. Normally, you can get around with a half tank. With the prices being so high, you rather settle for a quarter of tank than put in a half tank because it's so expensive.

This is like being an expectant father whose wife has gone into false labor. It's the nature of the business ... the only thing that we cannot control is the weather.

Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because the prices were so high that it was more beneficial to sell the animal. But, with the Japanese demand dropping off, ranchers have been able to keep those heifers for breeding, thus allowing them to rebuild their herds.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care

Because the cost of labor and the cost of benefits, especially health care benefits, have become so significant.