Cotton shortage Prices will Skyrocket.

[sudsman]

Anyone wanting 100% cotton bedlinen or towels, need to get them right away.Have now had 2 different linen reps warn me that this fall prices are going to skyrocket for any cotton goods. Seems that the cotton growers are now planting corn instead to sell for ethanol.. Cotton planting this year is the lowest it has been in history. Medical Suppliers are warning there may be a shortage of cotton balls and gause and swabs.
better buy them right away..

 

[butch-innj]

Good Grief !

Dosent this just wanna make ya chew through rope and kick a tree?

This past "Black Friday" I got a really good deal on sheets at WalMart.
100% Cotton, 600 Ct for only $20.00
(For those of you who don't know, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving and is the start of Christmas Shopping)
WalMart only had available about 50 of them in different sizes but I got there early enough and shoved my way thru enough people that I got exactly what I wanted.
Full size (in virgin white) top and fitted bottom sheet with 2 pillow cases.
Ohhhhhhhh when I hang them on the line to dry and get that fresh outdoor scent in them.....sighhhhhhhh....to die for !

 

[qsd-dan]

I guess it's a good thing I recently bought lots of socks and underwear. I swear, these bastards will come up with any excuse the price-gouge.

Oh yeah, and ethanol will be a big flop (i.e waste) in the very near future. Don't these idiots have any common sense?

 

[sudsman]

No the do NOT have any sense at all.

I do not understand just how ethanol can really help us anyway when it actually makes you get less mpg.. And is hard On the auto as well. Now that makes no sense either. I thought it was to keep us from haveing 3 and 4 dollar gallon gas.. Dont work that way does it?

 

[appnut]

One way or another, they'll get ya in the shorts lol!!!

 

[rapunzel]

Crops for fuel make up less than ten percent of all crops planted world-wide - not enough to send prices of cotton or food crops heavenward or cause real famines (yet) for any legitimate reason. Most of the (cotton) products sold in the US are imported. So whether or not some cotton farmers switch to corn-for-fuel has no real impact on pricing. The impact comes from the middle-men (i.e. speculators et al) who make money from putting spin out there to create a perception and get people to panic. That is why oil prices fluctuate at the drop of a hat and any other commodity that has become the flavor of the moment to squeeze consumers for extra profits.

rapunzel

 

[sudsmaster]

Save your dryer lint!

 

[tolivac]

its time for the cotton crops out here to be planted-you still see cotton crops b eing grown in the Southern States.Its still pretty strong out here.and yes--tobacco too.Cotton and tobacco plants grow well in the hot humid South.
Ethonal as a fuel should be made from agricultral and food WASTE products-not crops grown for fuel-that is VERY inefficent-you are burning fuel to grow and harvest the "fuel" crop!!And yes-motors do run more efficiently on oil based fuels.I also feel Ethonal as a fuel source will "Flop" when the true cost to make it for fuel use comes out.Better to stick with oil based fuels for motor fuels.
I suppose farmers will plant the crops for ethonal as a process of rotating crops too prevent depleting the soil.I still see the young cotton plants out here-drive by the feilds coming home from work.A greenhouse in my neighborhood needs a new roof-the owners have not reroofed it-its roofing plastic blew off during a storm last fall.Wonder where it went-thats an awfully BIG peice of plastic!The green house was used to start young tobacco and cotton plants before they were planted in the feilds.