one indiana metal factory has lost more than 7% of its workforce in the last two weeks and the ceo who is joining us right now j.d. brown is the ceo of bci solution. j.b., the reason people are leaving is because they can t afford the gas. that s one of the reasons, steve, good morning and happy wednesday. you know, a year ago we were at $2.70 a gallon. a.a.a. standards for south bend, yeand indiana, that s increased to $4.26. just a month ago we were at 3.34. a 22% increase in prices in gas. in 2008 we learned a valuable lesson. we were rocking and doing great job. we had a great economy doing things and gas got above $4 a gallon. and when it got to be $4 a gallon, you know, we started losing employees and we were wondering why. they said it was too far to drive. right now in our county in mark county in breeman, indiana we
are .09% unemployment. rv capital of the world. in northern indiana we have more available jobs than we have people available. and, you know, the gas prices are real serious issue for our employees. steve: no kidding. i remember when i was in high school, we live 25 miles from my job, in clay center, kansas, at one point during the oil embargo i said to the boss i will have to quit because i can t afford the gas. they wound up giving me like a $50 a week stippen or something like that. have you talked about giving your employees a some sort of a little gas bonus? yeah. you know, that s been an interesting conversation in the last, i would say starting thursday we started talking about that. you know, as we are close with our team members here, and we hear them talk. we hear what they are having to say. nothing is off the table. we are looking at all the situations to keep our talented employees and our team members here. you know, we are trying to figure out what else can we do to
wait until we have to go through what we re getting ready to go through in the next couple of months. steve: exit question. you are in indiana. if anybody wants to work at your fountain dry, do you have a website or something. we sure do wwwbci solutions.com. we have a full machine shop and full assembly. we are just not a fountain dry. steve: indeed you are are not. j.b., thank you for joining us and telling us your story. thank you, steve. steve: you bet. knives to meet you. 1:00 in the ukraine in the afternoon and fox & friends hour two starts right now. two hours from right now president zelenskyy is set to deliver a virtual address to the u.s. congress. the main thing we need right now is a no-fly zone. without that basically useless. [siren] ukraine. en cities including kyiv under a curfew as russia continues intense bombardment. putin is intended to collapse this country by slaughtering them. three european leaders