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Updated: 8:55 a.m. Thursday, March 17, 2011 | Posted: 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years.

By Howard Pousner

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

No, it's not just you. Prices are indeed going up.

Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. The Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February, the Labor Department said Wednesday, double January's .8 percent rise.

At a glance, here is how Atlantans are feeling the pain:

3.9 percent -- rise in food prices, the biggest gain since November 1974.

48.7 percent -- increase in vegetable costs, with meat and dairy also rising.

3.3 percent -- rise in energy prices.

13.7 percent -- increase in gasoline prices ($3.56 a gallon on Tuesday, up 43 cents from January).

1 percent -- rise in apparel costs, the most in 21 years.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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