. your first concern would be the cost of diesel fuel. virtually everything you buy comes on diesel fuel. diesel prices get too high, transportation stops. nearly everything becomes unaffordable. inflation is directly connected to transportation. your second concern if you were transportation secretary would be domestic air travel. this is a huge country, it s fa too big of a country not to hav reliable commercial flights fro one place to another. we ll end on time, they don t crash. so maintaining that system of air travel is probably the top concern of the united states transportation department. that s what you re worried abou if you have a secretary, diesel and airlines. remarkably, in less than year i a half under joe biden, both these things have gone dramatically in the wrong direction. the price of diesel has hit its highest price ever recorded in history. the national average is up 70 percent since just last year it 5:53 a gallon. that s terrible for truckers, but al
flights canceled into and out o the u.s. flaming weather and air traffic control, understaffing and increased covid case rates by the fda reporting staffing shortages at their traffic control center in jacksonville saying and the statement, weather was a factor, but staffing has been a challenge. staffing has been a challenge . may be because joe biden forced the airlines to fire employees they didn t want his ineffectiv shot. so the system fell apart, there s not enough people to ru it. airlines can no longer provide on-time flights. guess what rich people are doing , rather than working they are playing private. the earnings report from the charter airline company wheels up in march of 2020, they had 6,300 active members, that number has now nearly doubled t 12,400. it s not just wheels up, that s the trend across the industry. according to private jet data provided by airports there were