To hell with the price of gas- have you checked out the price of milk? I just got back from Kroger’s, and a gallon of milk was $3.45. not a few months ago the price was around $2.45.
On the cooler was an explanation (of sorts), with a link to this website. Read the whole thing, but the only real explanation was this:
U.S. dairy farmers produced about 1.7% less milk through April this year than they did in those same months last year. The primary cause is the low farm milk prices of 2002 and the first half of 2003. The milk supply, which is slow to adjust to reduced dairy farm returns, is finally responding. Hampering recovery is the U.S. ban of movement of live dairy cattle from Canada, formerly a major supplier of young milking cows, due to last year’s discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) in a Canadian cow.
The price of beef is also through the roof, too.
van
Maybe price controls do not work?
JKC
They sure don’t help dairy farmers, van.