Posted on 04/29/2008 4:31:05 PM PDT by neverdem
We don’t go to McD’s more than once or twice a month. When we do, I get a grilled snack wrap ($1.29). So I am not worried.
My point is, it is hard to feel panicked about a global food shortage when we can get hot cooked meat with a bun and condiments and cheese and even lettuce or a pickle for a buck.
Heh... heh... any minute now the “have-nots” are going to pick up their clubs and whatnot, pile on some rafts, and land here in the US, making war on us for our food supply. Oh, and don’t forget — the high price of fuel doesn’t have anything to do with rising food prices, it’s all due to “corn subsidies” and “burning food as fuel”.
Now why would fuel costs impact the price of food?
Isn’t the whole argument about corn ethanol... that it will get us off oil?
See? Corn ethanol gets us off oil, so therefore... rising oil prices have no impact of food production.
Fuel costs have a direct and indirect impact on *everything*, and food production is lousy with hydrocarbon costs. Even projections on how much less corn will be planted in 2008 compared with 2007 show that fuel is all-important. Even though corn-based ethanol (by current methods) yields more energy than is put into it, the price of corn will have to rise in order to cover increased fuel costs.
I’m hungy.
BTTT. I tend to like the writing of J.R. Dunn.
The author of that piece in the Journal has probably not been in a grocery store for years.
They keep saying ‘crisis’ and it is certainly something but ‘crisis’ doesn’t seem to be the correct form. We’re going to be here for a long time and a crisis is something you will move past soon and either survive or not. We’ll survive so the form might be more like menopause, a permanent change.
"Around here" is a really important part of that statement. I made the twice a month trek to Sam's and WalMart today and was surprised to see how little prices have risen. Eggs were much higher, yes. Produce was about the same price as this time last year. Flour, corn meal and the like was a few pennies higher. Meat was reasonable, with filet mignon going for $8.67 at Sam's (although I don't buy much meat as we either raise or hunt for our meat).
Which part of the country you live in has alot to do with prices.
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