I feel like a Soviet citizen reading Pravda not knowing what to believe.
There is terrible inflation, I know because I buy groceries. The media, including "conservative" media, doesn't seem to know about it.
What percentage of this terrible inflation is due to gas prices, etc. and what part has anything to due with rainfall?
Is this drought stuff real, or just global warming propaganda?
Can any Freeper advise?
” What percentage of this terrible inflation is due to gas prices, etc. and what part has anything to due with rainfall?
Is this drought stuff real, or just global warming propaganda? “
This year (and last year, and the year before) have been about petroleum prices (fuel and fertilizer) - next year is when we really get clobbered by the double-whammy of drought and even higher petroleum... Brace yourself...
By the bye, yes the drought is as ‘real’ and as serious as it can be...
It is bad here in Missouri.
Much of the corn is being ground up into silage rather than being harvested. Beans don’t look very good either.
Hay is about 1/3 of normal yield.
About 25% of the hundreds of ponds in my area are completely dry. They are used to water cattle.
If you have cattle you run the risk of running out of hay over the winter, then you must find hay that could be quite expensive by then. Some will be selling off some animals to avoid the risk.
The drought actually should have dropped the prices of beef. The cattle farmers have been slaughtering their herds because feed and hay are becoming short and expensive. The weakening dollar has much to do with rising prices as well.
AS for global warming............it is a bunch of bullbutter! Was just as dry in 1988,1977, and the worst in recent history was 1936. This drought really only amounts to three months of hot and dry weather. That is about it.