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Oh boy… now ethanol is blamed for the high price of coffee!

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So, farmers are able to sell corn for higher prices considering ethanol fuel is fitting increasingly popular here in the United States, right? Whether of not that means that food products such as tortilla’s, beer, tequila and milk are directly related to ethanol is often debated. Obviously, whether you are a consumer who is paying increasingly for a product such as milk or tortilla’s, and the maker of said product blames the price increase on ethanol, you may get a not good taste in your mouth about the alternative fuel. Those of us out there who must work nights might be cursing ethanol by something which seems uncommonly unrelated: coffee. Not just any coffee intellect you, but the super-potent stuff that your local neighborhood Starbucks is serving up. A commenter from the cited source article mentions an excellent point: whether your coffee drink contains no dairy, why would the price go up for that? I suppose that whether the price sweep is across the board and includes

even black coffee or soy-based alternatives, those consumers are helping to pay for the rest of the drinkers’ dairy addiction. But a later comment says that the price increase will not affect regular black coffee. I dunno… I’ll check the menu at the Starbucks down the street and see for myself.

The writer of the Environmental Economics blog, Tim Haab, has coined the phrase “Ethanol Dominoes” when referring to products which cost increasingly seemingly due to high corn prices seemingly due to ethanol. True or not, it’s pretty catchy, huh?

[Source: Environmental Economics via Treehugger]

Original post by Jeremy Korzeniewski