Rising food and fuel prices
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Rising food and fuel prices
From: Gary
The 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'** Hey Gary. Thanks for taking the time to stop and comment, and it is appreciated. Thanks for reading! You’re right. This has been building for quite some time, and though Twitter helped in the organizing of what we watched take place, people who are starving…make things happen, good or bad. It is a scary sight I’m sure…thousands of hungry people in the streets!
I sure hope we don’t see this coming here! By the way, the corn stats you provided…they’re absolutely staggering! Thanks Gary, and come back to visit again!
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Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
