This has doubled or even tripled in the last year and a half, ... The diesel price has tripled so the tax has tripled.

He's forcing students to sell things. The bottom line is that they are operating a for-profit business.

It won't solve everything, but this bill can hopefully lessen the impact of the hurricanes and rising fuel costs.

Were not looking to sue them. We just want them to stop.

It's back to about the 1930s as far as bankruptcies in the farm community, I think, and I think we'll see more and more of that in the next year.

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

The increasing costs of farming, from fuel for trucks and tractors to fertilizer, are beginning to wipe out farmers in Washington state.

We want to know where the hell all the money is going.

It's something that I think we can do to set aside to help farmers a wee bit in the challenges that they're facing right now.