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At one time you could get a gallon of diesel for almost half the price of regular gas. Now diesel prices can be a dollar more per gallon. Truckers and farmers have been hardest hit; many truck fleets have been grounded or scaled back, while increased costs to run farm equipment have affected grocery prices. We’ll look at what’s behind the rising costs of diesel, how it’s affecting Granite Staters and what’s being done about it.

Guests

• Massood Samii, Chairman of the International Business Department and Director of Institute for International Business, at Southern New Hampshire University. He also served at the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna Austria as a senior economist and the head of the finance section
• Jim Collura, Vice President, Public Policy and Communications at the New England Fuel Institute

We'll also hear from

• Doug Currier, owner of Currier Trucking Corp. in Gorham
• Robbie Munce, owner of Muncie Superior, Inc., the parent company of Gorham Oil Inc.
• Phil Ferdinando, who runs J & F Farms, Inc. in Derry