Pizza parlors struggle with soaring cost of wheat flour

The thick and thin crust creations at Ciro's Pizza Café wouldn't measure up without good flour and cheese, so Rob Marvin grits his teeth and pays the record prices being charged for them.

He spends $469 a week on flour alone, up from $156 six months ago. Next month, he predicts the tab will grow to $625 a week ... supplies are down. U.S. farmers have been growing less wheat, opting to plant corn and reap government incentives meant to ramp up the nation's ethanol supply...

[and of course everything he uses gets to him on a truck. I.e., this is how insane energy policy manifests into recession - if not depression. But as long as it's in time for the presidential election, mission accomplished: party before country.]

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