Food Shortages

polarexpress

A kindred spirit! That's how I use some of my grocery bags too!

You live in California so by STATE LAW your bags should be recyclable. The grocery store should have bins for this---unless the grocery chain is a very small one. Details are here : http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/lgcentral/basics/plasticbag.htm 

 

 

The grocery stores do have bins outside.  It's just that half the time I can't remember what I went to the store for in the first place much less remember to tote bags with me.   When I said I wished  they were recyclable, I mean it would be nice to be able to toss them in the recycle bin with the plastic water bottles and milk jugs. I've probably got a half dozen big IKEA tote bags in the back of  the car and absolutely never remember to pull one out when I  go to that store.

Joyce

aerial1313

Xerxes...When crude oil is almost $120/barrel, who pays that?  The oil companies.  Who gets the profits from the crude oil?  OPEC.  Why is OPEC raising prices and not increasing supply (when they can)?  Because they don't have to!  India and China are vastly increasing the global oil demand and every country who buys from OPEC suffers.  Including the US.  The oil companies' profits are NOT the same as their profit margins (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profitmargin.asp).  Just for those who are curious, the federal government makes more money off a gallon of gas than does ExxonMobil.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Royal Dutch Shell's has reported a 25 percent rise in first-quarter earnings, crediting strong increases in energy prices.

Shell's first-quarter profit has soared to $9.08 billion thanks to record prices for crude oil.

Europe's largest oil company said Tuesday its average selling price of crude oil leaped by 66 percent to over $90 per barrel from the first quarter a year ago.

That sent net profit soaring to a record $9.08 billion. Sales were up 55 percent to $114 billion.

Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said in a statement the strong numbers were due to a "good operating performance, combined with increased oil and gas prices."

Earnings from oil production rose 52 percent to $5.14 billion.

Analysts say the performance was impressive. E-mail to a friend