[kellynla]

and if the truth be known, the feds have tons of powdered milk warehoused...

The plain label milk in So Cal is 2 gallons of non-fat for four dollars...cheaper than what we're paying for gas...now if I could just figure out a way to get the Jeep to run on milk...LOL

ohhh for the all the 7.62's I fired in my time...fugedaboutit!

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Yawn. We are still drinking the powdered milk we stashed in 1998 to cover Y2K contingencies. This may run out in 2 or 3 years, at which time I will start to care about latest govt price policies (I suspect that powdered milk will still provide the best deal).

Similarly for shampoo, soap, various other commodities that store well. About the only insurance premiums I ever paid that were recoverable even though the hazard they were spent to avoid did not materialze. And now we are located where we can watch the "war on terrorism" with minimal worry that we will be "on the scene" for some ObL atrocity. If the IslamoNazis show up, all of my neighbors and I are armed to the teeth, and we'll have some fun granting them their death wish.