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Grocery Costs Climb

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I noticed yesterday with some fresh vegetables that their prices doubled since just before Christmas.(December 23)

The best defense against rising prices is to not buy the product.

Price of grapes is its weight in gold these days. Even apples are near ten bucks for a small bag. And then there is the cost of a $15 steak a year ago now cost near $40 for the same quality it seems….

Yesterday, Extra Food One cauliflower = 8.00
Case of Beer 40.00 , not at Extra Food
it looks like this will a expencive Year !

more increases coming .

This is not a problem I ever thought I’d have, but I’m in cauliflower withdrawal.

Time to consider growing veg indoors . With Trudeau putting the weed people out of business there should be lots of equipment on the market .

Instead of giving out natural gas away to mega corporations so they can make huge profits selling it to Japan, Korea, China, etc; we should ensure a stable supply for the North. This gas should be make available **cheap** for anyone who wants to set up greenhouses for growing vegetables during the winter months.

All it takes is getting some leaders who can actually think outside the box. Do any exist????

Amazon.ca search …. Grow light lamp . Surprisingly cheap and cheap to run LEDs . And you don’t even need soil .

Not so easy Palopu. 15% of my gas bill was carbon tax, which is a fixed amount, doesn’t move with the price of gas, and 5% was GST, which was charged on the carbon tax. The carbon impact of a greenhouse operation up here is huge, vs the completely carbon neutral method of trucking iceberg lettuce from California and Mexico. Ironic considering lettuce is 5% fibre, so we trucked essentially water from drought stricken California.

Using grow lights pushes me into Tier 2 of my electric bill, which is 50% more than Tier 1, so probably isn’t economical – unless maybe one of those unemployed grow-op people will show me how to get free electricity.

Yes, there is homegrown solutions, but government policy ensures the inefficient method trumps all. Carbon tax on natural gas in B.C., no Carbon tax on fuel purchased in US to truck vegetables into B.C.

Vrec.ca can show you how to get free electricity and its legal .

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