This rule will simply add costs to food production, and the consumer will pay those costs.
Projected costs - $.04 per gallon. Current taxes on that gallon of gas $.40+.
This may in fact lead to slightly increased prices, however your argument is an order of magnitude out of context with the impact of current taxes - and most can still afford a loaf of bread...
Projected costs 4 cents means actual costs are at least a dime.
Even then, I think it seems like a pretty good idea.
"This rule will simply add costs to food production, and the consumer will pay those costs."
In the 50s or 60s when wheat was about $2/bushel, it was determined that there was about $0.04 worth of wheat in a loaf of bread. Don't know right off what wheat is today, but its cost versus the cost of the bread is insignificant. Also there is no way a farmer can pass along an increase in the cost of production. He sells his product at the market price on which an individual producer has no influence.