Re: OT: Inflation in the US

default wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:38 -0500, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Food is incredibly cheap in the US.

That is changing rapidly right now. Double whammy lots of corporate
aid to Archer Daniel Midlands to make ethanol will take corn from the
feeds to animals and it is in 90% of packaged food now.

The double whammy comes in when it costs more to mine fertilizer,
transport feeds and chemicals, then transport the product to market
and keep it fresh with refrigeration.

Cheap food is something we will be looking back on in 6 months or
less.

In the 70's I briefly worked for the ag chem division of occidental petroleum corp. Urea came from one of the handful of ammonia reactors in Russia. Phosphates, sulfer and other import fertilizers came on large ships into the port of stockton from various other countries.

Now with the BAD trend to run food through our gas tanks--someone is going to get mighty hungry! I am afraid there IS doom and gloom down that road ...

Hydrogen cars make me laugh also, there are NO hydrogen wells! And, the cost of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to make hydrogen is a lossy practice. Claims of efficient hydrogen fuel cells "just around the corner" abound--but then so do rumors of perpetual motion and zero point energy.

I am afraid it is difficult to draw pretty pictures and fool me ... if only ponds and fletcher had come through ...

Regards,
JS
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