[Pirate21]

Oddly, the situation you describe will likely increase our dependence on foreign food (just while we’re saying we need to decrease dependence on foreign oil), as it seems there is little economic incentive for Americans to engage in farming. If I’m right (and I’m no more of an economic genius than you describe the authors to be) — for one thing, it’ll be a sad day when America can not feed itself; for another, it will increase the chances for nutri-terrorism (to coin a term). Do you think the tainting of food that comes in to the United States is always accidental? (Esp when it comes from China?)

Also, I can only guess what environmentalists do to farmers. They surely aren't helping gas prices.

(Man, I'm in a cynical mood today.)

[rellimpank]

-—reminds me of being in SW Wisconsin a few years ago—the hot item in the local paper was the efforts of the local trout fishermen to “end letting farmers use our trout streams as bathrooms for their cattle”—