Freight and food cost

I think most people have no idea how the fruit and veggies and even the foodlike substances they pick up at the local grocery store get there.  If they thought about it, they would correctly assume it was transported by truck or rail, but I doubt most would have any idea of the cost.  Freight from producing areas on the west coast has skyrocketed in recent months.  One broker paid $9500.00 to send a truck from Salinas to New York.  The freight cost was greater than the cost of the produce.  To paraphrase the cartoon character, "We have seen the future, and it is local".  With $4.00/gallon diesel fuel and more federal regulation of long distance truckers, local foodstuffs will become more and more important in the future.  Maybe more kids will have the same opportunity I did, growing up on a working small farm.