They are coming for the shirt on your back.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tue-commodities-introjun24,0,1753829.story

Electricity, cotton and natural gas prices running wild in run-up

A world growing affluent is driving up the price of commodities -- and not just oil

By Joshua Boak | Tribune reporter
June 24, 2008

Oil and corn aren't the only commodities that cost much more today. Prices for natural gas, electricity and cotton are running wild. And the consequences could affect winter heating bills and even the shirt on your back.

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1. Congress' nine bills to help bring down oil prices

Tuesday June 24, 1:36 pm ET

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080624/062408_oil_legislation.html

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Water is next on their list.

Survival will soon be a luxury.

[Hydra]

3. Survival is already a luxury for some of us

But I expect it will move from "luxury" to "small miracle" rather quickly.

[whistle]

4. Fritz Lang directed a film series back in 1922-23 titled Dr Mabuse

...which showed how the very same thing could and did destroy the Weimar Democratic Republic of Germany

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013086/


Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1933) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023563/