[ExI] Accelerando, The Spike, war and energy

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 19:42:15 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Keith Henson  wrote:
<snip>
> Exactly.  When a family is spending half its income on food, a
> doubling of food prices due to higher energy cost means the family
> starves.
>
>


Nawwww.    As of Nov 2009, 38 million Americans (17 million
households) spent nothing on food. They got food stamps from the
government.

BillK



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