25% OF CORN GOING TO ETHENOL IS DRIVING CORN PRICES UP UP UP. affecting food worldwide.
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Cleveland, Kyle E. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: second life
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 2:18 PM
> Trisha,
>
> We haven't seen a measurable decrease in traffic here
> yet. Because
> Interstate 70, a major US east/west artery, passes through
> Columbus the
> number of long-haul trucks on that road is supposed to be
> our bellwether
> for traffic flow. A lot of trucking firms (both
> owner/operator and
> corporate) are located here and they are really struggling
> from fuel
> prices. What's really killing them is that diesel,
> which used to be
> cheaper than gasoline, is running as much as a dollar
> higher now.
> Low-sulphur emission standards went into effect this year
> that created
> an increase in refining cost.
>
> Ironically, diesel fuel is chemically identical to #2
> heating oil, which
> is markedly less expensive. Bad things can happen to
> folks, though,
> that choose to skirt the taxes and fees that are the
> difference between
> the two.
>
> Locally, we've seen as much as a 40% jump in food
> prices as compared
> with this time last year. Cereal grains (e.g., wheat,
> corn) and cooking
> oils have been the biggest drivers of price hikes. A
> couple years ago
> corn was running $2.50 or so per bushel. Now it's
> around $7.00--who
> knows what futures prices will be with the impact of the
> Midwest
> flooding? If you're not a commodities trader this
> could shape up to be
> a cold, hungry winter.
>
> Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Trisha Cummings
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: second life
>
> Hi Kyle,
>
> Have you noticed that traffic seems to be a bit lighter? It
> might just
> be the early am commute but its seems lighter here. Not
> sure how other
> Metro's would be.
>
> My parking space cost - $140.00 a month and I use about
> $130. In gas a
> month now - I too can't use public transportation as I
> work multiple
> jobs and take care of my Mom. We are spending about the
> same - I do
> roughly 26 miles a day, my car sports car takes premium and
> as its 14
> years old - doesn't get the greatest gas mileage. If I
> can do some
> telecommuting - but still have to get to the college to
> teach - although
> some teachers are picking up teaching online classes - to
> save on gas.
>
> Trisha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Cleveland, Kyle E.
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: second life
>
> Hey Kat,=20
>
> I know this is a tangent, but since you mentioned
> work--what's your
> commute like to the office now with fuel prices being what
> they are?
> I'm really getting clobbered as I'm using two
> gallons a day and
> $5.00/day for parking. It's costing me thirteen bucks
> a day just to get
> to/from the office.
>
> Some folks in our office are working the 4 days/week cycle
> like you, and
> some are telecommuting from home. Unfortunately, the
> nature of my job
> necessitates my being here 5 days per.
>
> We have really crappy public transportation and no service
> to the burbs,
> so I'm stuck driving.
>
> Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Kathy
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: second life
>
> I tried SL once but wasn't impressed - but then I'm
> not a game player=20
> anyway. Maybe if I had more time to do it, I would. As it
> is, I
> work=20
> 11-12 hours a day for 4 days and then 3 days off for 8
> weeks for our=20
> summer schedule at work. I'm used to going to bed at
> 11 and getting
> up=20
> at 6 but now I'm having to go to bed at 10 and get up
> at 5. The
> three=20
> days off are spent in sleeping in, catching up on my chores
> and catching
>
> up with my friends. I love my job but I'm so tired!
>
> We go back to our 5-day schedule the midst of August - but
> that'll
> just=20
> mean I'll work 9 - 10 hours a day without an extra day
> off. Oh well...!
>
> Kat
>
> P.S I spend some of my wee bit of spare time watching
> foreign films.
> =20
> Now that I've gotten my cochlear implant optimized, I
> am interested
> in=20
> listening to non-English speakers and discerning their
> speech
> patterns=20
> and maybe learn some new languages. :) K.
>
>
>
> PPS - When you respond to an email, please don't quote
> the entire=20
> original message because it makes for very large emails.
> Most of us are
>
> probably on broadband but I'm sure there are some who
> still use dialup.
>
> Thanks!
>
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