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I think history bears out the fact when food prices rapidly rise, there's a huge political price to pay.

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Ethanol subsidies have recently caused a dramatic rise in price of virtually every food staple, and I don't see anyone paying a political price for this. Like everything else our gov't does, 99.9% of Americans don't even know about it.

If anything, rising food prices and the like are politically beneficial, as this gov't-caused problem will only provoke cries for further expansion of government, rinse, repeat.