CNN story about food prices

[Easygoing]

CNN just had a report about the recent extra high food costs due to high fuel shipping costs. They said it is forcing people to move out of "paradise".

Always do what evers next.

[pslamont]

Naaa, it's just forcing us all to plant gardens, share our resources and open that growers co-op we have been talking about!

Due to an employee problem, my garden is sitting fallow this season. As I have to leave in a week there has been no point in planting what no one will be here to maintain. If anyone should want to use my well fertilized 25 x 4 foot garden for the summer contact me immediately; its probably not too late to plant some crops.

Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!

[macuu222]

It's even worse in Alaska...At least in Hawaii we can grow things here year round to help suppliment the cost. And we don't have to pay for heating oil 9 months of the year.

[mgeary]

I saw the bit on CNN. Remember, they have a financial interest in generating feelings of crisis and panic among millions of viewers. The professor in the bit from UH Manoa, I believe, even spoke about growing your own.

Not that I'm going to go out and grow a cow for milk, the problem is real, but it's not the crisis that CNN tries to make it out to be.

Aloha! ;-)

[Guest]

I don't know M -

Just went to the store and noticed the price of Bacon went up $.30 cents in just a week!

Drove up to the farm that same day... Saw a couple baby pigs running around....

I was thinking... Dang... wish them little buggahs weren't so hard to catch right now.[]

Prices are getting really ridiculous and I see more and more people panhandling and doing what they can just to get by.

The other day I was approached at Malama Market by someone asking for a Dollar just so that he could eat.

Some of us are more fortunate then others.

I don't think CNN really knows the Hawaii situation as it really is, however, I don't think they are purposely trying to "Scare" people from moving here.

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It is the way... the way it is.

[mgeary]

Yeah, and I'm not there, either. If it is a temporary thing, then things will get better. If it's a permanent problem, if $120 per barrel oil prices are here to stay, then inflationary pressures will bring up incomes and welfare payments, too, but that takes time, and it's not good, anyway. Plus, people will fall out the bottom while those kinds of adjustments are made.

Consider my earlier post revised. Maybe there is a crisis. I'm sure the situation is critical for many in Hawaii.

Aloha! ;-)

[gtill]

After the scare in the 70s(long line and odd/even days to buy gas), they did the same thing, and the price came back below where it was. There's plenty of oil, just too many very vocal people who think we have it too good and want us hurt.

Environmentalism has become a religion, and like any new religion is full of zealots, capable of causing great pain and suffering to those who are not as fanatical as themselves, and don't tow the same line.

It started with tenure in the universities, and brainwashing with their power over students.

When you hear people suggesting we imprison scientists who don't belive their hype, I sure hope not allagree.

[JWFITZ]

With consumer confidence at near record lows, and consumer spending drying up as a result, in what way does CNN and its advertisers profit by scaring people, so they they're too terrified to go out and make purchases? I don't ask this rhetorically.

The fact that rice has risen 75% this year isn't so much scaring as starving people.

[james weatherford]

The times, they have changed.
Time to pay and not just take.
If paying for what is taken is perceived as a 'crisis',
then that'sa crisis is what we got on our hands.
It certainly is a change.

Crisis? What crisis? I don't see any crisis. I do see change.


James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[gtill]

JW, they make out by web hits, market shares etc, all involving advertising revenues. They could give a squat about public perception, the viewers aren't dumb enough to be scared to go to the stores, they'll just be a little more thrifty. And if more decide the islands aren't going to be feasible for them they leave, a common occurance here, always has been, always will be. Then they'l tune back in in LA when they get there and listen to the earthquake predictions!