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The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate
The Washington Post ^
| November 15, 2014
| Roberto A. Ferdman
Posted on 11/17/2014 10:38:15 AM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob
Women and minorities hardest hit.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:04:30 AM PST
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: Billthedrill
Well, I was going to start growing tobacco in the back yard just to piss-off Lefties.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:04:33 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Bettyprob
Oh no!
Obama is going to have to increase our chocolate rations from 30g per person per month to 20g.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:04:55 AM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Our man in washington; Bettyprob; dfwgator; tx_eggman
Last year, the world ate roughly 70,000 metric tons more cocoa than it produced. By 2020, the two chocolate-makers warn that that number could swell to 1 million metric tons, a more than 14-fold increase; by 2030, they think the deficit could reach 2 million metric tons.
It's this same kind of linear thinking without underlying physical or economical cycles taken into account, that has given us the Global Warming meme.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:07:49 AM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The minimum for calling it ‘chocolate’ is 10%. So if the price doubled , I assume the actual chocolate bar would only go up 10%.
Instead of candy bars, I just buy bars or baker’s chocolate, which has a higher chocolate content, and isn’t nearly as sweet. So I’d be looking at a much bigger price increase.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:08:09 AM PST
by
lacrew
To: Bettyprob
Clearly what is needed is for the federal government to set up a “strategic cocoa reserve” to mitigate the crisis.
Time for Obama to appoint a ‘Cocoa Czar’... Maybe establish it as a new cabinet position.
With any luck, maybe Jonathan Gruber will be available for that position.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:08:38 AM PST
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Bettyprob
A stock market guy used to write under the pen name “Adam Smith”. In his book “The Money Game” he had a chapter called “The Chocolate Caper” about trying to make money on cocoa futures.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:12:49 AM PST
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: Bettyprob
Yep, it’s about that time again: slow news day, so time to re-recycle one of the MSM’s favorite phony doomsday stories:
1. The world’s running out of chocolate.
2. The world’s running out of coffee.
3. Sunspots will cause the world to grind to a halt.
4. A killer computer virus is killing all the PCs.
5. The honey bees are all dying and the food crops will all fail from lack of pollination.
Have I missed anything important? (And global warming and “climate change” don’t count because those never leave the news in the first place.)
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:13:42 AM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Bettyprob
But Willy has a chocolate river!
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:16:11 AM PST
by
BCW
(ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
To: Bettyprob
Have they tried fracking for it? We will all die without chocolate.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:17:31 AM PST
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: SpinnerWebb
might be the problem...
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:18:25 AM PST
by
BCW
(ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
To: Bettyprob
Sooooo .... cocoa futures?
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:24:07 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: PeteePie
Hard-working American men and women have a RIGHT to chocolate. We must make sure that all Americans have equal access to chocolate at prices that won’t bust the budgets of these hard-working American men and women who are working so hard.
That is why I am today proposing legislation that will level the playing field for these hard-working American chocolate consumers. And, in order to make sure that greedy chocolate producers do not engage in market manipulation or predatory pricing, I am creating a new federal agency: the Department of Chocolate Regulation And Pricing, just to show that I give a C.R.A.P.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:27:28 AM PST
by
Walrus
(I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
To: Bettyprob; cuban leaf; Kartographer
now THIS is SHTF material !!!
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:28:09 AM PST
by
onona
(Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
To: Bettyprob
No chocolate. No bacon. What’s the point of humanity continuing?
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:37:56 AM PST
by
Ken H
To: Bettyprob
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:43:14 AM PST
by
dasboot
To: Bettyprob
Mrs. Scoutmaster will be inconsolable when I show her this. I don’t even think guacamole will help.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:47:28 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
To: Bettyprob
Every year around the holidays, they say the same thing. It’s just an excuse to raise the price and to get people to stock up.
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:50:08 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Darksheare; Monkey Face; Tax-chick; no-to-illegals; NoCmpromiz; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; ...
Chocolate famine, PING!
“ This is not a Drill!”
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posted on
11/17/2014 11:51:31 AM PST
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day. Barry is counter revolutionary ,Denounce him!)
To: Bettyprob
CHOCOLATE SHORTAGE IS DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING....
THE HORROR!!!
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