And while the gubmint is giving our tax money to farmers to grow corn, giving our tax money to energy companies to make ethanol, forcing consumers to buy ever increasing percentages of inneficient crap, the price of our food is going through the roof.
A high percentage of the food we buy is tied to the price of corn in one way or another, whether it's corn syrup or corn feed for beef, the gubmint's stoopid meddling is costing us all a fortune.
Take a look at the graph below for the cost of a bushel of corn. Note the temporary pike in 2008 was due to severe flooding in Iowa and the later spike is due to increased ethanol production. click on the 10 year option above the chart to see the trend: