Saturday, January 26, 2008
 
Cosmic Factors Occur
Rising food prices? How could that happen? Those darn cosmic forces aligning against us:
    The underlying reasons for the skyrocketing prices are complicated, with roots in places as far away as Australia and as close as a newly planted acre of corn. Rising fuel prices are a main cause, but other factors, particularly a new government mandate for more corn-derived ethanol, are playing a role, too.

    "It takes a lot of bad things happening at the same time, for the prices to go where they have," said Pat Westhoff, co-director of the Food and Agricultural Research Policy Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
We've got government mandates saying food should be burned as fuel and government prohibitions restricting nuclear power, new drilling, new pipelines, and new refining capacity. But mandates are made in the passive voice, and these things just happen.


- posted by Brian J. @ 3:19 PM
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