Re: Rising food and fuel pricesFrom: GaryThe revolts in the middle east didn't start because they discovered Twitter, it's because the cost of food grains has doubled in the past 9 months. And here's a little trivia. According to the EIA, the US turned 5.1 billion bushels of corn into ethanol in 2010. For perspective that 5.1 billion bushels would give 1 lb of corn to 780 million people every day for a year. Just sayin'