WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:
As oil prices hit $100 a barrel (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/oil-prices-rise-red-sea-attacks-houthis-saudi-trump-iran-war-rcna588851) last week amid President Trump's war of choice with Iran, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are spotlighting a new congressional report (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/37b255b8-91d9-43b0-8041-6b0d90cd150f/final---jec-fact-sheet-on-diesel-farming-costs.pdf) that found that farmers in Virginia and across the country spent over $1,500 more to fill up their farm's onsite fuel tank - the common way farmers buy and store diesel fuel - during this year's spring planting season than they did la...