Caffeine Jones
Everyone blathers on about our foreign dependency on oil. I say the more worrisome dependency is on coffee*. Without a steady supply of java, our GNP would plummet overnight. Whole factories could be shut down because of some weather oddity in Brazil. Is anybody protecting this precious, and imported natural resource? I mean, besides my secret, underground coffee cache?
(Commodity Trading Guide: coffee): The supply-demand situation for coffee is a little different than most others. The demand for coffee is relatively inelastic. This means that given even significant changes in price, people will still be hesitant to change their consumption habits to any great degree because coffee has no real substitute that the consumer finds comparable.
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