Re: Wow!

In article <m9hgs3th6mpo7qp03lfhf5ek7k21r4ebt0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Caesar Romano 
wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:46:20 -0500, Gary  KW4Z <kw4z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote Re Re: Wow!:
>
>>On 2/27/08 6:23 PM, in article
p4sbs3djlhosk0iia3iuibj4jlle0jitmr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>"Caesar Romano" <Spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Wow!
>>> 
>>> An article in the paper today was predicting $3.50 - $4.00 per gallon
>>> gas price by summer.
>>> 
>>> Bummer.
>>
>>
>>Not to mention that bread and other wheat products are also supposed to
>>increase prices greatly just like anything that corn feeds since they
are
>>diverting so much corn into the ethanol program that the remaining
causes
>>beef prices and other prices to rise.  Thankfully I don't have to drive
into
>>work each day now but I'm also effected greater by price increases being
on
>>a fixed income these days and that income hasn't increased to keep up
with
>>the other price increases.
>
>Good points. Very few people realize how much of everything produced
>in this country has energy-price as a very significant part of the
>cost.

Yep.  Everything, and I mean every SINGLE thing, that you buy
in the store requires petroleum to get it to the store.  Some
producers have absorbed the increase in energy costs in order
to keep their prices low, but cannot do so forever.

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TJH

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