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Tobacco is another private industry that has the lowest prices let by the Gov. A friend of mine and all his brothers were big big dairy cow farmers. Not a one of them got their farms through Gov loans but they were still held by rules that only milk cow farmers or gov loan farmers had to live by. Like only plant this many acres of corn etc etc.. They would just walk onto their farms with white hardhats and tell them when they were asked what they were doing on the farm to shut up or they would call in their farm loans. Well they got kicked off the land and the dairy cows were all sold. Now they do beef. Now they have no ties to the gov / farm thing. They are still big big farm people.
People say we should sell off our SUV or trucks and ride in one of those sardine cans but not all of us use our vehicles for a ride to work. Some of us use our vehicles in our line of work. Sure they use a little more gallons but that isn't the only reason oil costs $105 a gallon. Try packing a toolbox in the back seat of a hybrid next to the family. Our dollar that use to buy a barrel of oil isn't worth a dollar anymore..what is it worth now? Maybe 50 cents on the market? Now we need 2x the 50 cents to keep up with what the yen sells for. Our buck isn't a buck anymore...This is just one reason for the high oil cost. Different rules in different states on emissions set by the EPA etc etc etc...helps drive the cost at the pumps too...taxes at the pump?..What happened to the 40 cent a gallon they were talking about? Needed to pave roads. I seen them dump over $10000 worth of asphalt over a hill due the lack of one degree in temp. Gov waste at it's finest. We have to start watching out for that and get something done about it. Waste. Gov waste.
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