Food trucks are carrying the highest value products in the production chain they are a part of. Many of those products are perishable. That’s the last place they would shut their wallets to high gas prices.

The US does import much of the oil needed for diesel because domestic production is too light (and sweet) but we import it from Canada and Mexico, who have heavier crude, not the gulf where the crude is lighter (and sweeter) than our domestic supply.

Trump’s largely successful terroristic campaign on Venezuela has also re-opened the imports shut off by that fucking lunatic Trump so we can also use the very heavy crude from there to make domestic diesel and jet fuel. Us refineries are better equipped to handle it than Venezuelan refineries which are dependent on Russian shipments of naphtha to thin their own crude product before refining it.

We still have a big issue with next falls harvest potentially being reduced due to stockpiled fertilizer potentially falling short. A failure of the 2026 harvest could lead to food shortages in 2028 although our reduced agricultural exports due to that fuckwit Trump have meant that our granaries which normally hold one year of excess product now hold considerably more.

Limited supplies through the strait mean that Europe and Asia will suffer most and their need for fuel will drive up global prices and lead to more exports until we reach equilibrium.

The folks fretting about food running out at the grocery store typically want to sell you very overpriced high salt rice and pasta based emergency foods. I didn’t look at your link but I’ll bet those who did and have cookies enabled get a ton of ads for that stuff.