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>You sound defeated before you start. That's not the way we built this
>country nor how it will stay strong.
>Dave Forgey
You know, Dave, I believe in a market system that should actually function
relative to true supply and demand.
But waaaaaaaay too much of our markets are manipulated and distorted. US
Cheese demand keeps rising. Cheese disappearance is up. Yet CME cheese
prices have gone the other way, pushing farmers' prices downward.
I ran across another tidbit the other day. Ethanol prices have dropped 34%
during the past five months. Meanwhile gas prices have risen dramatically
during that same period. Now, logically petroleum distributors should be
scarfing up every bit of ethanol and doing a 1-2% blend in our gasoline.
(There isn't enough ethanol production capacity to do a much higher %.)
Conclusion, the petroleum companies would rather have US reliant upon some
nasty foreign dictators for our fuel rather than encourage growing our own
supply, even if it means passing up some extra profitability by blending in
ethanol.
Farmers could be growing energy in corn and sugar cane for ethanol, soy and
canola for bio-diesel, switchgrass to fuel electric generating, but the
market is controlled by certain corporations who retain lawyer-lobbyists to
"influence" our senators and congressmen.
Kraft pretty much has a lock on the nation's supermarkets, controlling the
prime retail locations by paying slotting fees. Actually competition (and
almost any brand tastes better than Kraft cheeses) doesn't stand a chance.
Dave G.
