Re: Mileage

From: knox.james@sympatico.ca
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 22:54:02 EDT


ANDY :-) i WAS SHY ON TOUCHING THAT . Beer drinking do to hops and
barley and malt will alter that market. What price is life. God Gave US
Life And To be Good , If the products from the the farms is lost, we face
the end of north american econom

Jim 91 Dak

>
>On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jason Bleazard wrote: > > On Wed, May 14,
>2008 5:49 pm, knox.james@sympatico.ca said: >> >> We are paying $5.00 and
>above for the equivilent quantity in Canada. > > To be fair, it's currently
>$1.25 per liter around Toronto, which is $4.73 per > US gallon (US gallons
>are only 3.78 liters). To get it over $5 per gallon you > have to use
>Imperial gallons (as of today anyway, next week it'll probably > jump
>again). > >> Ethanol produced from corn is causing a food crisis > > Turns
>out, not so much. The 11th paragraph is particularly interesting: >
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/361634_biodiesel03.html > > "While
>biofuels do compete for food and cropland, experts said they're not the >
>primary problem when it comes to soaring food prices and global food >
>shortages."
>
>Don't forget a very, very important crop - HOPS.
>
>Hops farmers have had some rough growing seasons the last year or two, and
>many have switched from hops to corn in part due to that and in part
>because they can get more money for corn now.
>
>Some microbrewers have been having a very, very hard time over the past
>year as a result.
>
>Won't someone please think of the brewers?



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