We are all connected, often in ways we don’t understand or appreciate.

A door opens, another closes and our actions turn into consequences, and ones that are not always anticipated and sometimes can twist and turn us every which way but loose.

Think about how rising fuel prices spurred the biofuel industry into expansion, and later that translated into higher food prices. We were spending a lot of green to be marginally green. Our expenses were rising, not only at the pump, but also at the grocery store.

Now the world economy is in crisis, the price of oil h...

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