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To: elmatador who wrote (54117)	8/25/2009 2:41:00 PM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 218008

supply dropped on processing shortfalls, when large georgia refinery went down. otherwise there would have been a near net balance of supply and demand. mischaracterizing the commodity is dangerous, sugar beets are very lucrative crop... mostly this momentum is based on output to boost exports out of dead beat cuba. Price is always an artifact of one or anothers mouthpieces intent.

To: elmatador who wrote (54117)	8/26/2009 12:25:21 AM
From: energyplay	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218008

My thoughts exactly when I read the new dieteray recommendations. Of course, since almost no American has been fat or had heart disease the past 10 years, it is reasonable to promote this now... Are the food processing companies going to kidnap and arrest the executives from the sugar companies - treat them like Rio Tinto ;-) Let's all help the poor sugar farmer buy his family some new shoes. Or a house in France.

To: elmatador who wrote (54117)	8/26/2009 2:40:54 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218008

It would be difficult or impossible to find a cheaper product than sugar to fill food with. Sugar is far less expensive than flour or fat or virtually anything which can legally be put into food. What's really going on is the sugar price earned by U.S. producers is subsidized by an import tariff. Global sugar prices are rising due to ethanol production and drought, factors which don't affect U.S. sugar price. Regardless, the U.S. sugar lobby is using rising global prices as a pretense to eliminate the import tariff so they can purchase even more sugar on the global market, pushing the price even higher! This argument makes no sense, but they hope no one will notice. .