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Dirty price of a failed energy policy

By Gregg Patterson
ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Trips to the grocery store really suck. Milk is $4 a gallon. Bread is more than $3 a loaf. A dozen eggs just exceeded $2. These are basic food items. You can't simply do without them. Getting to the store is a problem, too. Oil is now more than $100 a barrel. The price of corn — that feeds the dairy cows and laying hens — is at an all-time high, according to the Wall Street Journal. So is hard red spring wheat, needed to make the bread that feeds us. In February 2007, a bushel on ...

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