{"id":4215,"date":"2008-01-26T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:05:46","slug":"cosmic-factors-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/cosmic-factors-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Factors Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising food prices?  How could that happen?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/ACA7A4872803FCFE862573DC001E1E63?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Those darn cosmic forces aligning against us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The underlying reasons for the skyrocketing prices are complicated, with roots in places as far away as Australia and as close as a newly planted acre of corn. Rising fuel prices are a main cause, but other factors, particularly <b>a new government mandate<\/b> for more corn-derived ethanol, are playing a role, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes a lot of bad things happening at the same time, for the prices to go where they have,&#8221; said Pat Westhoff, co-director of the Food and Agricultural Research Policy Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got government mandates saying food should be burned as fuel and government prohibitions restricting nuclear power, new drilling, new pipelines, and new refining  capacity.  But mandates <i>are made<\/i> in the passive voice, and these things <i>just happen<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising food prices? How could that happen? Those darn cosmic forces aligning against us: The underlying reasons for the skyrocketing prices are complicated, with roots in places as far away as Australia and as close as a newly planted acre of corn. Rising fuel prices are a main cause, but other factors, particularly a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}