[lane912]

when you go to the super market in march and find white tomatoes that were grown in Chile and shipped here, "ripening" for 4 dollars a pound do you find them appetizing in any way? soon, ten years or so energy prices are predicted to be high enough to make this type of marketing cost prohibitive; it will cost too much to grow or make a product on one side of the earth to be consumed on the other side. everything will be produced for local markets or cost more.