Amish also feel strain of high fuel costs - USATODAY.com

By Jonathan Starkey The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal Inside his workshop near Dover, Del., Bennie Troyer, an Amish man, shapes and assembles wood. He builds about 30 to 35 custom kitchen cabinet sets a year, and each set takes about a week and a half to make. Cabinetmaking, a trade Troyer learned from his father, Sam, who started the business in the 1960s, has become much more expensive lately. The price of diesel fuel that powers Troyer's tools — a traditional table saw and wide-belt sander among them — has skyrocketed the past several months. At this time last year, Troyer says, he paid $2.35 a gallon for diesel. It cost him $4.49 a gallon recently. Burning 125 gallons a month, that's an extra $267.50, not counting fuel surcharges suppliers are tacking onto deliveries of things such as stains and drawer slides, Troyer... [read full story]