--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >
> For what it is worth, the rolling average of food prices AND petroleum prices > both went above 2x the 2002-2004 price late in 2007: > > http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesindex/en/ > > Currently, they're both about 2.5x what they cost in 2002-2004 > My bad, that was oils and fats (foodstuffs) pricing, not petroleum. However, the rolling price of petroleum crude pretty much tracks that of food: http://quotes.post1.org/historical-crude-oil-price-chart/ L
