Bookwatch - "World Made By Hand" by James Howard Kunstler

[renewablejohn]

Managed now for three years without a fridge. Cant say I miss it but we would be lost if the old farmhouse did not have a cool larder in summer.

[Bob]

Paul,

I don't think that the "Laws of Economics" can sort out the chaos caused by a couple of years of crop failures.  The lead time for food is often a year or more.  People starve in a lot less.  Three bad harvests, a move toward bio fuels (and remember that USA/Canada is the worlds biggest food exporter and proposed user of bio ethanol) and you will be eating your neighbors dog, just before you eat your neighbor!

Jack makes a very good point about commodity prices.  Watch that space.