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California: Before And After The Drought, And Why It's Only Going To Get Worse
While the Northeast is blanketed by another winter storm, California has its own, quite inverse, climatic problems in the form of a historic drought which as Bloomberg reports, is forcing farmers in the fertile central valley region to fallow thousands of acres of fields and has left 17 rural towns so low on drinking water that the state may need to start trucking in supplies. It is so bad that water reservoirs are at about 60 percent of average, according to state water data, and falling as rainfall remains at record low levels.
Unfortunately for our California readers, it is going to get worse before it gets better because mountain snowpack is about 12 percent of normal for this time of year. The following picture of California from January and a year ago shows just this dramatic difference, which confirms that there is little hope for the parched state.
Here is the WaPo's Reid Wilson explaining the above visual comparison:
The three-year long drought plaguing the western United States is only likely to get worse over the next year, forecasters and climate scientists say, given a dismal snowpack that has officials in many states worried. Despite a snowstorm earlier this week, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains stands at just 12 percent of the average level, the lowest measurement in the half-century records have been kept.
The low snowpack has serious consequences for the summer. Less snow means less summer runoff. Already, California has banned fishing in some drought-prone rivers. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has asked residents to turn off the water while brushing their teeth. Earlier this week, President Obama called Brown to discuss the drought.
Earlier this month, Brown declared a state of emergency, urging residents to conserve water as much as possible. Several state agencies have said they plan to ration water throughout the summer. And already this year, several wildfires have broken out in areas of the state like Humboldt County, which is typically wet enough in the winter to mute any fire activity.
This of course is great news for America's already reeling economy, not to mention its stock markets and earnings growth-less corporations: it means one more excuse can be added to the arsenal of scapegoating, because while the latest snowstorm will come and go, even if it should provide "economists" and "analysts" with another reason to ignore "weaker than expected" February data, the aftereffects of Calfornia's drought will linger. And as everyone knows, Californians don't buy houses, cars, iPads, burgers, clothing, and generically, stuff, when there is a drought raging.
So bring on the bad data, and let it all be explained away by California's lack of snow, not to be confused with the overabundance of snow everywhere else.
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The drought may actually reverse what happened in the 1930s. The dust bowl drove many midwesterner farmers to California.
Those widwestern aquifers are getting dryer too, and will take a millenium to refill. Irrigation made all that land arable in the first palce, but the jig is up.
I fled CA 2 years ago. My tipping point was getting audited two years in a row after I had done everything by the book.
At first I would complain about the constant rains here in the southeast, but now I'm sooo grateful.
Let me hazard a guess as to WHY ... we're being punished by God for our sinful ways ... so-called 'gay' homosexual marriages being at the top of the list.
So let me be nailed to a wooden cross for stating so.
I don't even...
My reading of the Bible indicates that homosexuality is a punishment given or allowed by God for a people's sinful ways.
I logged in to Up arrow you, I happen to agree. I was born (58 years ago) and raised in California, for the past twenty or so years I keep hearing the people who say they've run away as if they're some kind of hero, when in fact they're a bunch of pathetic cowards. I hate what this state has become, but I'm going to stay and fight. By the way, there are alot of good, sane, and moral people in this state, you just don't hear about them.
Thanks. And to the others, someone had to say it ...
There are in California 139 public employees and welfare recipients for every 100 in the private sector. And I would imagine that, daily, the ratio gets worse.
So, oh, yeah! Let's stay and fight. Say ... I know. Let's have an election. Wonder how that'll turn out.
Damn right, PRO.223!!! This is my home and it's way too beautiful of a place to leave to the libtards. Hopefully the lefties will leave and go fuck up other states and leave this one to us.
There are probably around 10 Californias. Too big to throw a blanket on. From Liberal Nazi's of the Bay Area, to the Neocon Socialists of Orange county, to the Central Valley Fundamentalists that would probably nail both to a wall in a heartbeat.
Not to bring up the Spotted Owl eating Loggers in the real Northern CA (North of the Humboldt/ Mendocino County line) in the State of Jefferson.
Thanks MH, and you are right Professor, there are many Californias. I'd love to see the state split up in 4 or 5 smaller states. My area, the Sierra Foothills, is a great place to live, still very conservative, beautiful, but admittedly still under the "Libtard" governance in Sac.
While I admire your commitment to "fight", I already gave them their pound of flesh and I'm done. I was born there, but I'd rather be any place where I don't feel quite as much gunpoint in my ribs every day. I missed the prop 13 boat, so I'm not going to sacrifice my family for some pretty scenery.
Maybe I'll see you when it's time to plant apricots again.
Glass raised in your general direction from the Central Coast. Well said.
We are being punished for our belief and faith...in central planners and collectivism.
We have turned self styled elitist geniuses into gods and handed our futures to them.
The Ogallala aquifer does not replenish. It is/was an undergroud lake left behind by the glaciers.
Btw, watch out for the sink holes in the karst.
Are cossacks normally this stupid?
My source says:
The Ogallala aquifer is replenished by runoff from rainwater and snowmelt. Kansas and the other Great Plains states do not receive enough rainfall annually to refill the aquifer. There is concern in many states that the aquifer will run out in the near future
Per:
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/ogallala-aquifer/17157
yes it will.
but we'll have to pump it back in first.
desalinate and filter the oceans, it'll act as the bread basket 'water tower'
gunna need cheap nrg 1st tho
I hope you like all the vermin over there? All the rains? South Florida is under constant water rationing. Whom you kidding?
I'm in NC. Rains a lot compared to CA.
I found 5 acres + 4000 sqft here, not far from town, for the price of a postage stamp in San Jose. There's a flat spot where I'm going to have my garden, but it's super muddy due to runoff. However I think a french drain should take care of it. Planning to have corn, tomatoes, and pretty much everything else in the ground this year. Maybe a couple pygmy goats to mow the lawn.
I have solar, well, and my property tax is 6 BTC per anum. I think I'll be OK.
Never have seen so much water. Record rainfall and more than the previous record rainfall of 2 years before. Roads that were once open are now impassable due to record levels of water. Never has it been like it is now.
Sadly the indigenous locust will flee Calif along with those La Raza (The Race) racists and cartel members.
Lotsa water in the ocean. Drink up California.
Here in Canada we have more fresh water than just about everyone. But we know how you Americans don't like pipelines.
Can we get some water in tank cars?
Why use pipelines when you got Buffet Rail.
;-)
I'm living with all the drought problems righht now. It snowed two days ago, a bit more scheduled this week and next- BUT nowhere near what is needed. It's just too bad that instead of bailing out bankers and rebuilding Iraq the last decade we the people couldn't persude the govt to spend a few hundred billion on a network of tunnels from Washington down to CA and AZ and NV to supply drinking water. Instead, we have $18 trillion of debt and really nothing to show for it....sad for future generations.
Hmmmmmm
This could have been done for less than a few billion. The problem is libtards took over Calif and they want it like this.
I never thought that a state could pull off The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse - Death, Famine, War (coming to a state near you when things fall apart) and Conquest (aka Reconquista). Thank liberalism.
wonder if this will effect
the california marijuana crop....
Yes
ummm, this guy's an idiot. the data is this, we have appx 1 year before most of the reservoirs run dry in California, last I looked about 50% of the nations food comes from us "liberal" californians. The northern latitudes (as in arctic and alaska, etc) are 20 degrees above an already post 1979 "average" HUGE amounts of methane is erupting from Siberia this year. Methane is 100-fold worse a greenhouse gas for the first few years after it enters.
We are looking at human extinction within 50 years, that's how fast things are going this year. Read a paper.
Canfield Ocean. You're soaking in it
Not just human extinction, more like about 90% of ALL life forms. If this process is under way, Gwynne Dyer in his book 'Climate Wars' picks 2175 as the year the remaining few hundred million humans notice the rotten-egg smell in the air...
Funny, the book 'Under A Green Sky' starts out in west coast USA. Read the papers due out this year from IPCC WGs 2,3,and 4. (WG1 is already out).
It's the main monkey business. Cookin'!
Move to east coast. Fucking rains 5 days a week in the DC area...
The west is going back to what is natural for that area of the country, desert. They said that the last 30 years have been the wettest and that it's not normal. Most of California and other states have been made so because of water being diverted and not natural water at the area.
Time for it toslip into the Ocean and get wet again.
Everytime we elect Jerry Brown, we get a drought.
It's settled science.
Its cause he likes the "dry look"
And he does have a very dry sense of humor.
Which causes brown rot in the Central Valley
The drought is a great distraction from Senate Bill 33, a huge power grab by Moonbeam and his minions. It has already passed the state senate.
http://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB33/2013
This bill would revise and recast the provisions governing infrastructure financing districts. The bill would eliminate the requirement of voter approval for creation of the district and for bond issuance, and would authorize the legislative body to create the district subject to specified procedures. The bill would instead authorize a newly created public financing authority, consisting of 5 members, 3 of whom are members of the city council or board of supervisors that established the district, and 2 of whom are members of the public, to adopt the infrastructure financing plan, subject to approval by the legislative body, and issue bonds by majority vote of the authority by resolution. The bill would authorize a public financing authority to enter into joint powers agreements with affected taxing entities with regard to nontaxing authority or powers only.Maybe this will stop the yuppies from telling us they live in "Socal" and "Norcal"
No, you live in a subsaharan desolate wasteland.
Just wait until all those yuppies in Park City Utah learn that they live in a high desert.
They need a drought first - to learn what a drought is all about - before they can understand how to manage and fix the drought.
Fuck 'em.
We have an old property in Liberty Utah, it is at the mouth of a canyon and actually came with water rights. Not something you stumble upon every day. We have had to fight off offers for our shares.
Only one rule applies now; when fraud is the status quo, possession is the law.
You better be Mormon or possession will get trumped by God.
Not quite. White and intelligent is enough (that and being armed to the teeth). In addition, I employ many people (a dependable tribe).
In the end, the gubmint owns everything and they also employ many people who are frequently armed to the teeth. In the war for resources law is the first casualty.
Actually, the gubmint changes the law to allow them to do what they want. Law then diverges from any moral compass. Everything that was done in the old USSR was legal, too.
Not only that, but most of the Mormons that I have met have been decent people, even if I do find their beliefs to be a bit whacky. And I keep on hearing that they're preppers during the best of times, so you might not have to worry about them coming through your door for your food.
I meant fuck the Californians. Not the Mormons. I like Mormons a lot.
He y LoP, I'm over here in PC... there is no doubt it's a desert this season.... we didn't even get the usual Sundance dump!
BTW, it's called The People's Republic of Park City nowadays.
Complete with subsaharan culture!
LOL +1
That all hinges on their meth supplier. Surrenos or Nortenos?
you live in a subsaharan desolate wasteland...
Not exactly. The Central Valley more closely resembles Canaan, (aka the Promised Land) in distance north of the equator, with the biggest difference being we’re 10 times the size. It’s a shame we haven’t been able to do a better job at allocating and storing our water resources any better than this. If CA / US citizens cannot make better use of our land and water resources than this, then maybe we deserve to have a (p)resident / king rule over us. Not that I’m in favor of it, but I don’t see how he could do much worse than our gerrymandered overlords in Sacramento.
Damn you weather! Damn you all to hell!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbYx6hevoQ
Yeah, Barry's gone from blaming Bush to blaming republicans and the tea party to racism to blaming the weather. And we still have 3 years to go. What will he think of next?
Hmmm ... time left to blame THE JOOS ...
That's what Obama has Secretary Lurch for.
Well then there's only one valid conclusion: The weather is racist.
I blame all those lily-white clouds!
secretly, the lilly-white clouds are the real source of global warming. But don't tell anyone about that.
Yours in Science that is disprovable.
- Ned
But on the other hand,
the less precipitation,
the less radiation.
You can't have it all.
hmmm three years of drought by relocated jet stream just happend to coincide with Fukishima? /tin foil hat
ID 10T. The 'jet' changes on a day by day basis.
The words dust bowl rings a bell. Funny thing that history, it doesn't repeat itself, but.......
... it sure does echo.
Ken Burn's Dust Bowl documentary was interesting to watch. It had to be horrible living in those dust storms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYOmjQO_UMw
A major brown-out to be sure. But never mind, the swimming pools of our liberal "friends" in Kalifornica will be full anway.
...but no brown people allowed in their poolz.
Yeah but they will insist that YOU allow brown people in yours though. That's my experience with liberals. They are all high and mighty telling you that you should be politically correct and multi-cultural but that shit stops at the gates to their own housing development let me tell you. Fucking hypocrites.
Chemtrails are dropping all the Pacific moisture intended for California on the east coast.
No, the aliens under the Denver International Airport are actually using the HAARP array to redirect all the precipitation to Ukraine, hoping that the rain there will squelch all the public protests. It's all that yelling that they hate --- very hard on their large and exquisitely sensitive reptilian ears.
Fucking aliens.
Well, I told everyone I knew 35 years ago that all the aliens were going to ruin this country, and now look at it!
exponential alien reproduction, don't cha know.
Look up at the sky, especially before a forecasted storm.
Chemtrails? Please, that is just such utter rubbish. Contrails have been around a long time. I've read all the links the Chemtrail folks offer for me to read, upon closer look, they are all rubbish, crazy talk. Manufactured lies, but maufactured for a very good reason. Follow the lie, follow the funding of the lie, and you end up in the board rooms of big oil, big coal and big gas. They aren't fools, the lie machine is funded by over a billion dollars in just the last few years. Unlimited money to buy lies. For what purpose? Anybody can figure that out. Chemtrails are a lie, plain a simple. They are not even fanatasy, they are paid lies. Ignore them, ignore the money behind the story. Life is too short to be carrying water for EXXON and the like, they can carry their own water, no????
I feel better now, I have no idea what a chemtrail is!
> I've read all the links the Chemtrail folks offer for me to read, upon closer look, they are all rubbish, crazy talk.
You're either lying - or you're an idiot. Choose wisely.
Like anyone needs to read about chemtrails. Go outside on most any day and have a talk with your lying eyes.
Logic is apparently not your forte, is it?
Tell us, what magical apparatus are embedded in your eyes which inform you that a given contrail is a supposed "chemtrail"?
I agree with the previous poster: there is ZERO evidence, physical or otherwise, for "chemtrails" being anything more than ordinary contrails. You have nothing but supposition and paranoia.
Perhaps they've read David Keith?
Or seen him?
But Harvard hasn't been captured either & no he didn't say "we don't know the consequences & we're taking a FREE RIDE ON OUR GRANDCHILDREN.
To the deniers I say horseshit.
Aaaand..another handle added to my list of "chemtrail/HAARP" posters who will henceforth no longer be taken seriously. Also, could everyone who upvoted that comment (and wasn't just trolling) please give me a shoutout so I can expand my list. Thanks.
But, but, but, ... can't you see them?! They're right up there!
No, not those contrails, the other ones --- those that happen to cross, or persist (due to light or absent high-level winds) --- they're CHEMTRAILS, I just know it!
Proof? What more proof do you need? Just LOOK at them!
Those chemtrails are especially dangerous for giving people sunburnt faces and stiff neck syndrome. (Sns)
A friends brothers, sisters, step child, told him of someone on the internet who was apparently attacked by chemtrails! The person was looking up at them for 7 hrs and 22 minutes when he was suddenly seen to topple off a concrete wall that he had been standing on.
He was apparently quite close to finding out the truth about chemtrails when the attack took place.....
Long Brawndo.
It's got electrolytes.
if this drought moves eastward, this spring and summer, we are fucked royally. The prices on grains and meats will soar through the roof.
I hang on the futures markets; and I can tell you the price of beef already went through the roof. the fall out at retail will available at a market near you soon. but there's not inflation, (you can always eat fried locusts).
Not worried here in DC. We get occasional month long spurts of dry weather here in the mid summer but it always is washed away quickly when fall, winter and spring arrive. This area gets damn near as much annual rain some years as Seattle.
midwest winter storm = high beef and milk prices
california drought = high produce prices
Which is why I have an elk in the freezer and just expanded my annual/biennial garden space by another 500 sq-ft, and just got another area ready for blackberries. There may be some breaks, but I don't see food getting much cheaper in the long term.
I hope you gave that poor elk a jacket!
How did you get an elk in your freezer? He must have kicked like hell, not to mention poking holes in everyone around with those massive horns.
You're full of shit, an elk in the freezer. Sure, and I have anacondas in the microwave.
Chloroform.
trade you some caribou
for some elk meat...
i hope this includes los angeles, because i cant stand the fucking city or the people of that fucking city,
I love you too Rig ... I was born in East LA
That's true except it's February 3d. Some winter to go yet.
Phil says 6 weeks...
There must be something California can tax that will help ease the drought.
Tax
... water use, flush toilets that use a lot of water, cotton crops, lawns (especially at businesses like gas stations and banks), lawn accessories (including products that pollute water), real estate development, sale of non-xeriscape plants at retail outlets like Walmart, ... and I'm sure there are many other possibilities.
golf courses
We could tax the taxes .... oh, we already do that
President Zero should issue an executive order to ban droughts.
The glass is 88% empty.
drink out of the bottle
We should move DC to California, that way we got all the fucked up shit in one place !!!
What about new york?
You could move sewage processing into WS and then have your prisons and sewage processing all at once
"Hello, EPA? Bath House here. Is there anything we can do to worsen the drought? Well, keep working on it. I wanna see YT choking on dust!!"
When the regulators come by to check my water usage they will see my Drought Free Zone sign in the yard and my family and I playing merrily in the sprinklers. If they protest I'll just point to the sign and say I'm using statist liberal logic and to please go away.
there is no drought, and an el-Nino weather pattern is predicted. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/el-nino-may-develop-as-most-mod...
* based on measured ocean temperatures, no bond debt desire
This is all state propaganda to promote the state's desperate water bond project agenda, the Mexican mafia controlled CA legislature has learned they can fool the public all of the time with water bond issues, even if they don't create any new water.
Exhibit A: https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Central-Basin-Municipa...
85% of CA rain falls in Feb and March-for the last 10,000 years, a drought is usually declared after 3-4 years of low rains, we had 1 dry year.
Beware, CA is a Socialist test kitchen for the rest of the nation, water reclamation district fraud is the new sub-prime cash cow.
Thank you for the information. Time to front-run that shit.
Researching the shareholders, directors, and history of a relatively unknown company ticker: CDZI can be quite revealing in that regard.
Better loosen the strap on the tin-foil hat buddy, I think you are cutting off the circulation to your brain...
Here is the historical data
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData/DataTables.aspx
Not to mention:
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/california-record-driest-ye...
http://www.wunderground.com/news/california-exceptional-drought-first-ti...
http://www.wunderground.com/news/california-records-highs-fire-danger-dr...
And there is plenty more...
To be fair, weather underground was purchased by the weather channel a few years ago.
It was July 2012....And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China??
Or you are you implying that there is some kind grand conspiracy between every organization/institution to fake California weather data??
It means, WxUnd is now full, hard-on for the GLOBULL WARMING hoax and hysteria.
So are you, I understand.
We had a water bond issue come up on 2012. Stating that there would be no more water usage in the year 2050 than today & the morons voted FOR the SQ.
No, no dot to connect here.
I know my fair share of central valley yahoos.
I talked to a region power and water director - runs a major dam and reservoir and those guys don't even know if they have a cloud seeding program. Operations Popeye anyone?
Three years into the California drought and the water people don't even have a statewide program to put snow in the mountains and bring back the aquifer.
Now the ranchers are complaining about the nut farmers are complaining about the cotton, about the trout, etc.
This kind of negligence is on purpose. The result will be restrict people growing gardens in their back yards and stop small farmers from competing against big-agri. watch for water to double in price - because they can.
Never waste a good crisis.
They need physical silver (not paper silver) under $9/oz and available in quantity if they want to do cloud seeding.
" those guys don't even know if they have a cloud seeding program. "
Gee, do ya THINK that the presence of 'clouds' just might be a prerequisite even?
Geesh ...
This won't cause food price inflation.... They will just re-package 1 pound of beef into a NEW Improved 1-pound "class" size container only weighing 12 ounces.......
Or maybe they'll start selling Ready-Whipped "steak foam" sort of like that new peanut butter shit they're selling. More air, less product, same or higher price: winning!
The same High pressure system is also causing a severe drought in Oregon, where the precip'n is at ~ 25% of normal. This impacts the water reservoirs, hydro dams, fishing, farming...
According to the W/E edition of the Oregonian, it caused the Jet Stream to get redirected to the south or the north. When it got deflected to the north, it took the long route up to northern Canada, and then came back down as part of the Polar Vortex, and "blessed" the mid-West and East with the snow + cold. Recall the tens of thousands of cattle that froze in the early Oct snows in Iowa, etc.
IOW, most of the US got to feel the effects of a weather pattern, when the jet streams are perturbed/redirected. For those with a background in the natural/real sciences, you will recall that when a stable system is perturbed in way to reach a new equilibrium, the interval is characterized by lots of volatility -- where hot & cold, calm & stormy regions become stochastic (less predictable and volatile).
If you combine this with Volatility with the receding glaciers throughout the world, etc, etc, then maybe there is more afoot than "meets the eye" regarding climate change -- whether man-made or not.
p.s. If the Pac NW and CA don't get rain soon, EVERYONE will pay the price at the grocery chekout. Lucky for the Gov, the CPI won't show a thing, since it does not include food or fuel in the index. How convenient. Not!
pps. This is the part where it's extremely prudent to front-run Mother Nature and rising food bills later this year, by having your own garden and grow everything you can. A well balance portfolio balances garden+food etc, against excessive PM or paper assets. --> Diversify, Balance, Resilience.
It's just a water taper.
dehydrated deflation....
Barbra Streisand - Send in the clowns - 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghd5weu5Mpg
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother - they're here.
Good God. Please, no Streisand.
You want clowns?
Send in the Real Clowns ---> http://youtu.be/YUyzKJTWNqI
They'll get their water soon enough. I mean, isn't California supposed to fall into the ocean?
Long Oceanfront Property in Arizona?
I'm in NYC and here we drink snow and grow our vegetables in hot houses that are in the snow on the tops of buildings. And, nobody speaks English unless they have to.
Right, and you don't import anything.
try again fucknut.
You living in an abandoned subway tunnel? Cause none of what you mentioned takes place above-ground NYC.
And no one speaks here, we text each other.
What percentage of their water supply is being diverted to the NSA spyquarters in Utah?
Good question icanhasbailout,good question.
I wonder how long it will take people to realize that California provides over 12% of the agriculture output of the US.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-26/agriculture-is-bright-spot-in-...
In short, it is a very good thing that food is not part of the CPI, otherwise we might have to really worry about inflation.
12% of the food and what percent of the population? Food can grow in many places.
Let me be clear, I remain long sharecropping and a dependable tribe.
When the grain belt of the country has a late spring or is still under snow until May or later, and there are killing frosts that come later than usual, growing food can become problematic.
Our own garden can attest to that from last year, and made us realize a lot about the hardships our ancestors faced.
It also appears that part of California's woe's are man made as well. Go Figure:
http://naturalresources.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=5921
Much like one's portfolio, you need to be diversified as you can't have everything in a greenhouse.
same as it ever was.
if the harvest
didn't come in....
you suffered
Lots of fruits and nuts.
Let's face it, we could have a decade-long global drought and it STILL would not affect the CPI to any meaningful degree --- the BL(B)S would just hedonically substitute grass clippings for celery, dandelion roots for carrots and roadkilled opossums for beef and declare "All good".
Living in the SE, most of the fresh fruit and veggies I see at the supermarket are grown in either the SE or Mexico. No doubt, this CA drought will impact some prices, but this may be more regional than national, and where it has national impact, it will be on a product-by-product basis.
Look, if the country gets into a position its natural resources constrain all production, the Fed can just print MOAR, stock market will continue upward right projection, the wealth effect puts money in consumers' pockets and all will be well per QEeen Yellen.
This is probably late 80's, I was doing research for corporate Ag. I received a letter from NY resident and she told me that America did not need farmers because there was plenty of food in groceries. This NY resident did not connect, let's say, milk al the grocery shelf to dairy farmers milking cows. As I have been watching these markets since 2008, maybe she is right????
Can you say "subsidies", we knew you could...
One thing is for sure, america is about to get a lot thinner.
hey, you have to be optimistic.
Ethanol Subsidy. All those billions of gallons of Ethanol produced used to be water.
Excellent point.
Maybe they think that the starving zombies will still need cars to get around?
Hmmmm....
Cash crops = Root cause of the problem
ori
need gas
to drive around
looking for water
An ancient civilization in India disappeared when its river dried up. Imagine five years of this type of draught, ten years? Fifty?