Gallon of Milk Now Same Price as Gallon of Gas

[Matt Molnar]

The Times of London:

Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises
July 16, 2007
Suzy Jagger and Carl Mortished

What’s the connection between ethanol, the biofuel produced from corn, and a cherry vanilla ice-cream?

Answer: the first is responsible for pushing up the price of the other.

This month, the price of milk in the United States surged to a near-record in part because of the increasing costs of feeding a dairy herd. The corn feed used to feed cattle has almost doubled in price in a year as demand has grown for the grain to produce ethanol.

Christina Seid, whose family have been making ice-cream at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for 28 years, said yesterday that she expected to have to raise her prices, along with all competitors in the short term. “We are holding out as long as we can, but prices will rise,” Ms Seid said. More...[/size]

[AirtrafficController]

Ethanol is not really a great solution, they should just look more into hydrogen

[Matt Molnar]

I agree. There are plenty of serious obstacles to hydrogen power, but they pale in comparison to the effect ethanol is having on the world's food supply.