I also checked the price in my local Walmart several weeks ago. Can you believe $3.00 a pound??? And to think our locals just throw it away? We don’t use much, but the things we put it in are much improved by the addition. My mother used to have salt fish dinners and she would always render out salt pork to use as gravy on boiled potatos. My family would wonder what was going on if I served salt fish. I also remember (just barely) when lobsters were so plentiful that they could be found crawling on the rocks here in Maine. People called them scavengers of the sea and they weren’t very popular. Our family could swap a couple roast chickens for a bushel of lobsters. Lobsters now sell for about $10.00 each around here.
I usually don’t bother with WND articles (long on hyperventilation, short on facts), but I’ve seen rumblings of this in other sources, and it’s something we need to be aware of...
This could be the trigger that transforms our planning and preparations - especially for us urban folks - from intellectual exercise to deadly serious necessity....
Independent truckers planning shutdown
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 28, 2008
Posted on 03/29/2008 6:22:04 AM CDT by Man50D
Crude oil is running $100 a barrel and it costs $50 instead of $35 to fill your car, but you carpool occasionally and watch the number of trips across town so you’re doing all right so far. But what happens when, in addition to the $50 fillup, your groceries go from $80 to $120 and you hunt for new jeans but the shelves don’t even have your size?
That’s the very real possibility that is triggering an unofficial nationwide call for a shutdown by thousands of independent truck operators who deliver those supplies – all sparked by the rising costs of fuel.
One website already explains about 18,000 trucks have been committed to the shutdown starting April 1, and whether it goes for a day or a week, they are hoping that their actions will get the attention of officials who, they demand, must do something to help.
The Washington Post reports Lee Klass, hauling 41,000 pounds of hairspray from Florida to Quebec, stopped in North Carolina to refill fuel tanks, and paid $960. Diesel prices, he told the paper, “are terrible, and they’re not getting any better.”
Auto clubs that monitor prices say diesel has gone up more than 50 cents a gallon in barely two months, and has been setting records almost daily. The nationwide average on one recent day was $3.87 a gallon.
The newspaper warned fuel price hikes, especially trucks, have the potential to disrupt the Federal Reserve’s plan to contain inflation while creating growth with low interest rates, combined with the money giveaway program approved by Congress.
That’s because trucking claims 70 percent of U.S. freight transportation, from the cars you drive to work to the milk your children drink.
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