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As reported by KARE 11 TV in St. Paul, MN:

Sandy Lundgren opened Cheek to Cheek Diaper Service 16 years ago to serve little behinds.

Today her business is threatened by some big buts. But for rising energy prices Lundgren wouldn’t have been forced into a weekend waitress job to keep Cheek to Cheek afloat.

But for $100 dollar fill-ups for her delivery van, she might not have needed the loans against her home.
“It’s horrible, it’s hard to keep going,” says Lundgren. “$2.85 for regular and $2.84 for diesel, and tomorrow I’m sure it will be higher.”

Already Lundgren is spending $10,000 more a year to fuel her van than she was three years ago, and more on natural gas to dry her diapers too. She once battled eleven competitors delivering cloth diapers in the Twin Cities area; she’s now the only one left.

Rising energy prices are not solely to blame; cloth diapers have fallen out of favor with many parents. But Lundgren wonders if heads of oil companies making record profits ever think of people like her. “How do these people ever sleep at night,” she says. “They’re just picking away at us piece by piece.”

Lundgren says it would be sad if Minnesota loses its last cloth diaper service, but another quarter or fifty cents a gallon may be more than she can afford.

To Sandy something stinks, and it’s not coming from the back of her van.

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