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Reuters AlertNet - Where’s the global food crisis taking us?
Food costs have shot upwards so quickly that even a consumer in a rich country who doesn’t usually keep track of the price of bread will have noticed it. And anyone who counts the pennies has been feeling the pinch already, as global food prices have risen 83 percent over the last three years.

Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy - Jul. 3, 2008
Starting next month, thousands of government employees will only work 4 days per week, in an effort aimed at reducing energy costs and commuters’ gasoline expenses.

The Raw Story | Biofuels the source of world food crisis: leaked report
The United States Government’s Agriculture department recently claimed that the production of biofuels, or plant-based gas for use in combustion engines, has contributed a mere 3 percent to the growing cost of food worldwide. However, a leaked report from the World Bank, detailed in a new report by the UK’s The Guardian, claims that these same fuels are at the root of nearly 75 percent of increases in world food prices.

Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest: A sign of the times
I heard a new phrase yesterday that just had to be mentioned. That phrase is staycation means a vacation spent near home. It is a sign of the times that so many people can’t afford to go anywhere on vacations that there is a term for it.

The American Energy Crisis: The Powerless President
Unfortunately for the better liar in this election, the U.S. cannot drill or bio diesel/alternative energy/wind power/gerbil power/confiscatory tax policy out of our energy predicament. The better liar will preside over the collapse of the US$ and the worst oil/gasoline shortages since the 1970’s.