{"id":1353482,"date":"2022-03-01T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353482"},"modified":"2022-03-01T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:07:56","slug":"small-business-owner-on-bidens-policies-supply-cost-up-600-electricity-20-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/small-business-owner-on-bidens-policies-supply-cost-up-600-electricity-20-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Owner on Biden\u2019s Policies: Supply Cost up 600%, Electricity 20% Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmall-business-owner-on-bidens-policies-supply-cost-up-600-electricity-20-higher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Small-Chemical-Company-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Job Creators Network held a conference call with reporters on Monday to talk about the state of small business in Joe Biden\u2019s America ahead of his State of the Union address, including Guy Berkebile, who owns a chemical company in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a business owner, we\u2019ve always had problems that we\u2019ve had to overcome during our 25 plus years in existence,\u201d Berkebile said of his Guy Chemical Company. \u201cBut I have never gone through a period of time where we\u2019ve had to face so many issues that were negatively impacting our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Guy and others on the call \u2014 Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Jobs Creator Network and Stephen Moore, former Donald Trump adviser and co-founder of Committee to Unleash Prosperity \u2014 said Joe Biden\u2019s coronavirus and economic policies have hurt small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and federal payments to millions of America took their toll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe labor participation rate is the lowest I believe since I\u2019ve started my company in 1995,\u201d said Berkebile, whose company employs about 180 people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>And the mask mandate has affected worker morale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they understand how hard it is to work a 10-hour shift in the factory with a mask on \u2014 especially when you\u2019re running a machine and you\u2019re not around any other people,\u201d Berkebile said.<\/p>\n<p>Berkebile said that the cost of doing business has also risen under the Biden presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of some of the materials needed to make the products he makes has gone up 600 percent.<\/p>\n<p>As has the price for electricity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe do use a lot of electricity\u201d Berkebile said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve seen our electrical rates go up approximately 20 percent at Guy Chemical over the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re paying about $15,000 a month,\u201d Berkebile said.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News asked if, given the current war in the Ukraine, Biden will focus at all on climate change, given the brewing global oil crisis and Biden seeming still resistant to rebooting U.S. fossil fuel production to restore energy independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me put it this way,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cIf he does, boy, we\u2019ve got a bigger problem than ever. Because it shows just how out of touch he really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job Creators Network held a conference call with reporters on Monday to talk about the state of small business in Joe Biden\u2019s America ahead of his State of the Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}