As many of you have seen n the news cargo ships and domestic trucks are slowing down in order to consume less energy.

It takes a lot of that energy to get all that stuff into container cars, on a truck or train to the shipping port in China, onto the ship, across the ocean to the United States and out to wherever its going by whatever channel it takes.

Therefore the rise in energy prices has a more significant effect on the price of goods from the other side of the planet than it does from domestically produced ones.

Not that its going to matter, in another 20 years we'll be arguing about food either way because no one is liekly to really do anything about the climate effects from the greedy end of the oil age until then.