Actually, the cost of the entire T’day dinner is up 13%. Make no mistake, food and energy are both going up, along with all other commodities. 13% inflation is tame compared to the trainwreck created by a power-mad and greedy federal monster running trillion dollar deficits. This is part of the redistribution of American wealth to other countries. Using the phony argument posited by OPEC and the rest of the foreign oil interests is wearing thin—we all know they hate ETOH. Food prices continue up because we have 7 billion people and counting. And to think, the #1 health issue in America is obesity—apparently 50% of population would do well to consume less grain. Listening to all the carping about capturing sunlight energy and transducing it into ETOH is a poor excuse for the current crisis. What we need is a 30% across the board cut in federal spending and the required balanced budget.
People on this thread are funny, the reason prices are going up due to inflation. Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply, ie printing more money. The fascists have taken food and fuel out of the inflation calculations just like they take the unemployed out of the unemployment numbers. Everything coming from the government is a lie, almost of our politicians are misleading us, even the republicans running for POTUS.
Think not, listen when any one of them gives the number of Americans unemployed, our the SS trust fund.