> How are the crops doing in the US this summer, btw?
Not particularly well. We'll have to reduce our exports and draw down some of our reserves.
In other words, our poor people can continue to be fat, not starving. They might buy fewer TVs for a while or reduce the amount of processed calories to handle the extra cost.
We can have several years of bad crops before we'll have a food shortage.
Of course, it would help if we stopped using food for automobile fuel. (The brazilians would love to sell us methanol for less but they don't have an early presidential primary.)
Not particularly well. We'll have to reduce our exports and draw down some of our reserves.
In other words, our poor people can continue to be fat, not starving. They might buy fewer TVs for a while or reduce the amount of processed calories to handle the extra cost.
We can have several years of bad crops before we'll have a food shortage.
Of course, it would help if we stopped using food for automobile fuel. (The brazilians would love to sell us methanol for less but they don't have an early presidential primary.)