The effect of fuel costs has started to ripple throughout the economy, into formerly unexpected areas like the cost of basic food staples. Whether because of bio-fuels, speculation, or hoarding, the cost of corn, wheat, rice, and other basic staples has shot up alarmingly in the last several months.
While most of us in developed countries can afford to pay double and triple prices for basic food staples, in developing nations, such price spikes are a potential catastrophe. We could be looking at a resurgence in hunger around the world. OPEC needs to face up to their responsibility for this mess and help ease the price of oil. The developed world can pay, but the developing world is getting wiped out. The UN is looking for increased food production: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D905T9KG0&show_article=1 Some U.S. stores are now facing shortages of basic food staples: http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world Resistance to engineered foods is dropping because of shortages: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/21/business/21crop.php On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a $122.9CDN here where I am in Atlantic Canada or 4.63 USD/Gallon > > Thank god I have a home office. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Grosset [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:16 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Oil reaches $117 for first time > > approx C$1.20/litre here (Alberta) which equates to > > C$5.45/imperial gallon > > C$4.54/US gallon > > conversion data: > http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/gallons-conversion.htm > > Andrew > > >$3.43 a gallon or thereabouts 'round these here parts ... > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
