Another Reason Why Burning Your Crops To Fuel Your Cars I s Probably A Bad Idea

..... noticed milk prices lately?.......

Think gas is expensive. Try buying milk in the city, where prices for a gallon are hovering above $4.

And grocers say a gallon could cost $5 by the fall.

The price pop is being fueled by ethanol, the much-ballyhooed biofuel produced from corn.

Economists say the price of milk in the United States has surged to a near-record - rising 55 percent over the past year in some states - in part because of the increasing costs of feeding a dairy herd.

The price of corn feed for cattle has almost doubled in a year as demand has grown for the grain to produce ethanol. Store owners said those costs have been passed on to them, and they have been forced to pass them on to consumers.

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