there i fixed it for em
Posted on 01/06/2006 5:46:44 AM PST by Honcho Bongs
Coffee shortage brews trouble in Venezuela
National Guard seizes 330 tons of beans
Thursday, January 5, 2006; Posted: 11:18 a.m. EST (16:18 GMT) CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Coffee is vanishing from Venezuelan stores as producers protest price controls they say are strangling profits -- no laughing matter in a country where drinking the bitter brew is not simply a habit but a culture.
Troops and inspectors have begun raiding inventories held by private companies in an effort to ease the scarcity, authorities said on Wednesday. ...
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there i fixed it for em
Venezuelan coffee sucks anyway. But I can sympathize with those deprived of that most holy libation.
Scarcity. Its a Leftist ideal.
My thoughts exactly. Screw oil, coffee is a vital national resource. This is series........in fact hugh!
:-)
Maybe Bush should offer to send coffee to the poor people of Venezuela!
I agree!
We should work out a deal...
maybe one pound of coffee for one barrel of oil.
restrict caffeine intake
I have always believed that after the anti-tobacco nazis abolished tobacco that they would go after caffeine products.
Not on my watch!
Your post could almost surmise the whining in NOLA as well as Venezuela. wierd!
She who must not be named was actually talking about it when her husband was President. That's when I developed my contingency plan.
ROFLMAO!!!! I'll keep my eyes peeled for black suburbans!
I was thinking the same thing :-)
Is it possible to grow it in Mexico? That would keep some of their labor and OWN MONEY there instead of the Mexicans taking our dollars out of our economy.
I remember last summer where so many politicians were calling for price control at the gas pumps.
I'm glad the proposals went nowhere. Most people forget that price control is a short-term solution that creates enormous problems in the future.
Price control is as smart as drinking salt water when there is no fresh water around.
In the entire United States there is only one area suitable for growing coffee – and that is Hawaii. Although there are various types of coffee grown in Hawaii the best coffee is grown in the Kona district. At the present time – in the Kona region of the big island of Hawaii – there are about 1,500 acres of coffee cultivated on the hard volcanic rockKona is cultivated in modest quantities on the slopes of the Hualalai and Mauna Loa, an active volcano, in fields about 1,500 to 2,000 feet above sea level. Here the prevailing winds provide sunny mornings, misty mid-day cloud coverage and mild afternoon rains. This combination provides some of the finest natural conditions for the farming of Hawaiian Kona coffee.
The day my coffee supply is threatened is the day I support US invasion of the Central and South American coffee growing regions.
Juan Valdez can serve as the puppet Governor of this area. No price is to great to secure the catylitic fluid of capitalism.
I live in the sunny south. We get snowflakes every so often and everyone runs to the stores and buys bread and milk. I check to make sure I have coffee and some way to heat water :-)
I guess I'll do a little stockpiling also. No way anyone will be my friend if I have to walk around without coffee.
Thank you much for the info.
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