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America's grain stocks running short (food security and export control?)
The Grand Island Independent ^
| 02/24/08
| By Robert Pore
Posted on 02/25/2008 5:08:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Balding_Eagle
>>No one is gouging. Crop prices respond
>>quickly to the laws of supply and demand.
Gubmint mandated ethanol requirements have manipulated demand.
Get rid of ethanol mandates and let the market work.
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posted on
02/25/2008 10:46:58 AM PST
by
Etoo
(I regret that I have but one screen name to sacrifice for my country.)
To: Gabz; ridesthemiles
And gasoline?
Don't get me started.
The last tank full was purchased at $3.019/gal, the current tank cost $3.399/gal.
It was the cheapest I could find...
82
posted on
02/25/2008 10:49:24 AM PST
by
null and void
(The less you know, the better Hillary looks.)
To: null and void
I paid $3.09 this morning. Last week it was $2.89.
I’m plotting out my garden as we speak. I’m adding 5,000 square feet to it this year.
83
posted on
02/25/2008 10:53:21 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: Gabz
Plant a bunch of Cobaifera trees...
84
posted on
02/25/2008 10:55:01 AM PST
by
null and void
(The less you know, the better Hillary looks.)
To: JustaDumbBlonde
>>If you feel you are being gouged, dont buy.
Let them eat cake. Roger. Message understood.
>>Provide food and other necessities yourself.
I can do that. Millions of citizens who’ve been made dependent a system that manipulates and profits from the tyranny of their own appetite, can not.
>>If the system is flawed, work toward repairing it,
>>dont bite the hand that feeds you.
{rolling eyes}
85
posted on
02/25/2008 10:57:09 AM PST
by
Etoo
(I regret that I have but one screen name to sacrifice for my country.)
To: RKV
People can and do buy their own food you know.
Yes they do. However, if the dollar continues its slide and foreign purchasers continue to drive up the price, what happens when the food is unaffordable for U.S. citizens?
Keep in mind that I mostly agree with you. This is a problem of OUR (gov't) making, with idiotic, market-bending policies.
That being said, if the gov't were to fix its policies (mostly through cancellation), we might STILL have problems with affordability for a year or more. Not a comforting thought.
86
posted on
02/25/2008 10:57:47 AM PST
by
BikerJoe
To: Etoo
>>made dependent a system
=made dependent by/upon a system
87
posted on
02/25/2008 10:58:24 AM PST
by
Etoo
(I regret that I have but one screen name to sacrifice for my country.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
He is a paleo. More like a PINO.
88
posted on
02/25/2008 11:02:04 AM PST
by
Romulus
("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
To: CDHart
I remember 1973. We lost our business, thanks to the prime rate rising to almost 20%.That was in 1980. 1973 was about grain and oil prices.
89
posted on
02/25/2008 11:03:22 AM PST
by
Romulus
("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
To: BikerJoe
90
posted on
02/25/2008 11:06:20 AM PST
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: Romulus
Well, we started in business in 1970 in Florida as a construction services business. Everything was going along fine (or so we thought) and then one morning in 1973, I went to the local truck dealer for parts, and there were 15 or 20 trucks that said "repo, best offer" on them. And when we went to the job sites, there were chains on the gates - the contractors had shut it down and gone somewhere. And I remember they were blaming the increase in interest rates.
Carolyn
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posted on
02/25/2008 11:07:12 AM PST
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: kabar
What do you think happens when the government artificially boost prices for a commodity, i.e., farm subsidies?What happens, of course, is that you get MORE of the commodity, accumulating a surplus. That appears not to be the problem.
92
posted on
02/25/2008 11:09:22 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
To: Etoo
Get rid of ethanol mandates and let the market work. Should we do the same with the oil subsidies?
93
posted on
02/25/2008 11:11:10 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Our farm subsidies used to produce surpluses, which we often gave away as part of our aid programs. We also paid farmers not to put land into production. Times have changed, but we still have huge farm subsidies.
94
posted on
02/25/2008 11:14:56 AM PST
by
kabar
To: Mr. Lucky; paleorite
Jeez, the Hillary campaign seems to have infested even FreeRepublic.Not for a long period. Look at his signup date.
95
posted on
02/25/2008 11:15:02 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
To: Balding_Eagle
>>Rush has said that the most expensive commodity
>>traded in the United States is ignorance.
Lush Rimbaugh is nothing but a shill for the manufactured dialectic right. How’s he doing with his substance abuse problem?
>>They now have their wish, they’re gone,
Replaced by mandated Ethanol consumption.
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posted on
02/25/2008 11:16:02 AM PST
by
Etoo
(I regret that I have but one screen name to sacrifice for my country.)
To: null and void
Plant a bunch of Cobaifera trees... Do I dare ask what that is????????
97
posted on
02/25/2008 11:19:01 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: Etoo
Rush has said that the most expensive commodity traded in the United States is ignorance. Lush Rimbaugh is nothing but a shill for the manufactured dialectic right. Hows he doing with his substance abuse problem?
LOL! He's doing just fine I'm sure.
Couldn't give a rational response to his wisdom could you?! Chuckle.
98
posted on
02/25/2008 11:20:30 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: Balding_Eagle
Everyone thought food would get cheaper without those programs, The people who understand economics and government programs didn't think food would get cheaper. Did you?
99
posted on
02/25/2008 11:24:26 AM PST
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
To: Etoo
>>They now have their wish, theyre (subsidies) gone, Replaced by mandated Ethanol consumption.Implied in my post was the fact that if the Cheap Food Program for Consumers was going to be retired, it was going to take some outside force acting on the market to push crop prices up.
I apologize, I should have known it would need to be explained to you.
100
posted on
02/25/2008 11:26:08 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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