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Originally Posted by SVOboy
They say the same thing about the stuff used to produce ethanol, and we're steal seeing food price inflation because edible crops are being produced in lesser quantities in order to make room for ethanol-producing land.
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I'd like to argue that a large part of the food inflation is due to the dollar going down the toilet in relation to all tangible goods.
To further elaborate. If the dollar is worth less, the seasonal pickers that migrate need to be paid more. If the dollar is worth less and oil costs more, it costs a lot more to run the farm equipment. Both of these are heavily affecting the local farms of New England where we do not make any ethanol.