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To: SunkenCiv

Diversion of corn from the food supply to ethanol most definitely has an effect on food prices. Higher fuel costs is also a component of that.


75 posted on 12/31/2007 10:28:27 AM PST by rottndog (And yet another year races inexorably to it's end, only to fall into eternity like so many Lemmings.)
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To: rottndog
Diversion of corn from the food supply

Such diversion is nonexistent. Note that other grain products have also risen in cost. The cause is transportation cost, pure and simple.

79 posted on 12/31/2007 10:33:28 AM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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