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