In Houston on Tuesday, AAA reports that a gallon of diesel is going for an average of $5.72.
That's more than $2.50 higher than a year ago, and about six cents higher than Monday.
Prices aren't expected to drop anytime soon, especially with multiple global conflicts disrupting the supply chain.
Atkinson Farms, which opened in 2004 and is owned by Mike Atkinson, provides vegetables at restaurants like Local Foods and Dish Society.
"Like you being a reporter, there's a lot of things that are really, really good; there are some things that are not very good," Atkinson said.
Not very good right now: diesel fuel prices, which every tractor on Atkinson Farms runs on.
And then there are the higher costs of sending and receiving supplies.
"Two years ago, it used to be to get a pallet from Alamo, Texas to here was $450, for one day. Now, it's over $700." Atkinson said.
Atkinson hasn't raised produce prices yet, but he knows he'll have to if costs keep going up.
"I'm the least political guy that there is. I've always been raised, whoever is elected, support them," he said. "I spend 60, 70, 80 hours a week working. I don't have enough time for all that stuff. Somebody smarter than me will figure out."
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, only about 3% of passenger cars in the country use diesel fuel.
But the vehicles used to move the goods we all need do use diesel.
And when those costs go up, somebody's going to have to pay for it.
"I can't say, 'Oh, I'm going to stop going to the pump,' because then I can't work," trucker Wendell Jenkins said. "At what point is enough enough, at what point is it ridiculous?"
Jenkins rushes over time-sensitive oil field equipment like pipes and valves.
"The money that I do make, it goes right back into the truck," he explained.
For truckers that ABC13 met at the McCarty Truck Park in east Houston, the impact of the prices is obvious.
What isn't so obvious is what will happen next.
"We can talk about it, we can say a lot of things about it," Jesee Grines said. "But at the end of the day, what can we do about it?"
Atkinson said he tries to brush off that helpless feeling.
He's seen it all, farming in the Spring area since 1961, and hopes these high fuel prices, too, shall pass.
"You're going to quit doing the things you've done forever? No. You're going to quit eating? No. You're going to start walking? We walk enough a day! I walk 8 to 10 miles a day every day," he said with a laugh.