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| Are You Ready For Food Rationing? Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | April 21, 2008 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks. At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy. “Where’s the rice?” an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. “You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous.” The bustling store in the heart of Silicon Valley usually sells four or five varieties of rice to a clientele largely of Asian immigrants, but only about half a pallet of Indian-grown Basmati rice was left in stock. A 20-pound bag was selling for $15.99. “You can’t eat this every day. It’s too heavy,” a health care executive from Palo Alto, Sharad Patel, grumbled as his son loaded two sacks of the Basmati into a shopping cart. “We only need one bag but I’m getting two in case a neighbor or a friend needs it,” the elder man said. The Patels seemed headed for disappointment, as most Costco members were being allowed to buy only one bag. Moments earlier, a clerk dropped two sacks back on the stack after taking them from another customer who tried to exceed the one-bag cap. Full Story |
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| Always riding the ragged edge of disaster.  Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: May 2005 Age: 38
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| Re: Are You Ready For Food Rationing? Geeze.....
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| Your Mom hates you, she told me so....  Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 45
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| Re: Are You Ready For Food Rationing? The high cost of fuel has finally worked it's way down the food chain...last time I fueled my big rig it cost $4.22/gal....the cost is being passed all the way down to the consumer.....
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| Always riding the ragged edge of disaster. Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: May 2005 Age: 38
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| Re: Are You Ready For Food Rationing? It always has been, just the media and the ethanol groups didn't want to admit it...
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| Drugs Are Better Than Pugs - Just Say No  Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: May 2005 Age: 36
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| Re: Are You Ready For Food Rationing? And they aren't going to. Why? Because they are getting paid, why should they care?
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