re: #4 freetoken

I wrote about this a couple of years back, but the world bank and UN have both confirmed that corn ethanol is impacting grain and other starch staple pricing. The wingnuts are ambivalent on this one because ADM and the other people pushing corn ethanol in the US are all big red state political lobbyists.

Energy price fluctuations also impact food pricing heavily because they are additive throughout the cycle. In one form or another energy is used for planting, growing, harvesting, transport, processing, storage, and sales of food. Each step adds energy costs.