Dear Friends--In case you haven't see this on CNN, the network is reporting on the severe price increases in wheat. The price of wheat has gone up 2-1/2 times over the past year. A commercial-sized bag of flour went from $37 to $40 over the past couple of months. Everything made from wheat is going up and up as well. The reasons are 1) more farmers are raising corn for biofuels and less wheat, so the supply is low and 2) because of the falling value of the dollar more foreign countries are buying more wheat from the U.S. 60% of our wheat output goes over seas. We now have less wheat available since WW II, so we are all paying the price! Life in the U.S. is becoming like life in a 3rd World country!
Also from CNN: It takes a big rig trucker $1,000 to fill up his/her tanks. They are going bankrupt right and left. Truckers are going to stage a national work stoppage to protest the high price of diesel fuel, which is near $4/gal. in some parts of the county. How is bread going to get to the bread lines during the coming Depression? Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux proverb _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
