Tequila Sunset
It’s Schmoe worst nightmare come true! According to the Telegraph (UK), Mexican farmers are clearing away agave fields — used to make tequila — for more profitable wheat or corn crops. With the US paying big money for biofuels, tequila may become a thing of the past.
Corn currently sells for a record 18 cents a pound as US motorists turn towards biofuels in an attempt to avoid the soaring cost of petrol — now $2 a gallon.
In contrast, agave, which was worth approximately 80 cents a pound six years ago, now sells for less than two cents.
As a result, farmers have taken the difficult decision to let their agave crops burn to clear the way for more lucrative crops.
I imagine at this very moment, having read this, there is a Schmoe-shaped cloud above his spinning office chair, as Schmoe tears off to the closest liquor store to stockpile bottles of patron.
(Found via Digg.com.)
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Schmoe on 09/02 at 09:50 AMThis was going to be the basis of my rebuttal (and it was supposed to be in the newest podcast), but it really doesn’t change the main point: Less agave for tequila. Bah.
Posted by Schmoe on 09/05 at 12:40 PM
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