Whats the deal with Rice?

[Dagimp]

Whats the deal with skyrocketing prices?

Guess I'll be eating more sashimi than sushi. Heard on the radio some sushi place was raising prices because of increased Rice cost.

:hail:

http://www.masuya.com.au/images/menu_07/musashi/sashimi-main.jpg

[Jeffro600]

mmmmmm, sushi... :drool:

Im so getting some tonight!!!

[Pilot]

No worries dude, we're switching to Soylent Green. Mmmmmmm.......tastes like chicken......

http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=121602

[endorice]

Whats the deal with skyrocketing prices?

http://www.comics.com/editoons/sack/archive/images/sack2091690080422.gif

[Pilot]

Now people are hoarding food because they fear its going up in price or it won't be available.

The production of ethanol is just DUMB. Its an ineffecient, feel good measure that is hurting us by drving up the price of corn and its having a snowball effect on economies.

[IronMonkey]

Corn juice is dead. Cellulosic ethanol is the only viable ethanol solution.

[Sound_Man]

I think Condi is doing a great job... oh wait wrong Rice... Jerry went to 13 pro bowls, damn good player wish he was still playing.. hunh? still the wrong rice? uhh you mean that stuff that used to grow where all that subsidized corn is?

[Trango]

Tulipomania don't have nothing on the Ricepanic.

[endorice]

The production of ethanol is just DUMB. Its an ineffecient, feel good measure that is hurting us by drving up the price of corn and its having a snowball effect on economies.
And just to add insult to injury - the production of ethanol is subsidized by your tax dollar. So, your taxes pay to fuel the insanity, and meanwhile you pay more for your groceries and regular gas.

http://www.slate.com/id/2122961/

[Trango]

end of rice

Um, what's happening here?

[Mcstiff]

I never liked hondas much anyway.

[endorice]

Um, what's happening here?
Odd, isn't it? It's a mountain biking nickname: endo - rice (my last name)

[Trango]

Sort of like Ned Overend, but that really IS his last name? Weird. :)

[ni0h]

It's well-known that we reached peak rice in mid-2006. It's time to convert people to more-sustainable food.

[cherokeerunner]

i also heard that global warming is going to end up increasing the price of beer because the hops arent growing as well....

LIFE IS COMING TO AN END!!! Take everything else, leave me my gas and beer!!!!


















dang it :mad:

[Captain Obvious]

Ok, took me a sec to find something the old man was telling me a week or so about... It deals with Australia being the largest producer of rice and that due to a 6 year drought, it has dried up like 98% of the rice fields there... then it goes in to stuff about global warming, I stopped reading there.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/17/business/17warm.php

[Yota]

Corn juice is dead. Cellulosic ethanol is the only viable ethanol solution.

No it isn't.

The various cellulosic ideas I've read about are even less efficient than corn-derived ethanols on a net basis. All of them require more energy to create than you get back, cellusosics worst of all, which is unquestionably a BAD thing.

The only reason people are even considering ethanol is because it is subisidized by our government geniuses. The government uses our tax dollars to reduce the price of ethanol. So that increases demand which increases price which means more farmers switch from producing other food like, say, rice or wheat to planting corn because corn prices are sky high.

That in turn reduces the supply of other crops which raises their prices too.

Burning your food en masse is just a bad idea. But it is important to note that this calamity was predicted by many many economists as well as by dunderheads like me who have taken ECON 101. The concept behind it is as old as the hills.

So let's STOP subsidizing the production and consumption of an economically unviable fuel. I'm OK with the government subsidizing RESEARCH (READ: small scale, y'all) to a certain degree, but I do not agree that we should subsidize the mass consumption of something that is clearly not competitive or viable at all.

And it's not even "green"!!

[Trango]

Josh, isn't ethanol production your job or something now?

BTW, mad props to someone for the peak rice joke earlier.