I'm certainly not down to picking up lumps of coal by the railroad tracks.
Everything is up, milk, bread, food in general. They say Wal*Mart and Target, etc. sales are up, while the Marks & Spencer types are down. And it does seem mostly fuel related. They say the corn going into ethanol is raising farm prices, but then they say the cost of corn in a box of corn flakes is 5 cents. It does seem to come down to transportation costs.
A year from now we'll be at another plateau for another decade or so, but in the meantime we'll have to adjust a bit.
If nothing else, George Bush will be history. That's got to be a good thing.
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