Series - Emptying the Breadbasket

[charlz]

Up here they put them all up last year, sold some, most foreclosed on. Funny thing is that the cities all put up the $ to pay for the roads and sewer and support services in hopes of getting more tax $, now the cities are broke and still paying. Some of the developers may go to jail but the land is still just raising human habitat not crops or other edibles. What a waste. NIce black loam dirt as well.

Well, the cities seem to go broke no matter what.... I haven't quite figured that out yet.... more homes would mean more income in the way of taxes .... and more expenses in the way of services, roads to maintain etc. I'd be real curious to 'see the numbers' on whether or not subdivisions end up making or costing a city more money than leaving it as farm land. They all seem so eager to grow when the best move might be to really limit growth.

 

[SPIKER]

I think it is sad that we only have a limited export vs the amount of import, I think we should be getting pound for pound oil for food if they don't like it then too bad. let them eat their oil. we can eat our corn wheat soybeans ect. We are are really good at growing food as well as have a good amount of un-tapped oil reserves right now. Our farms are geared towards the planting harvesting and maintaining them of the major grains. we also have enough nat. gas reserves to keep making fertilizer and can use OTHER crops for bio-fuel besides corn. in fact I'm not sure WHY we don't have MORE cars like the little VW diesels that run on the bio-fuels getting the 60+ MPG that is quite common else where (read Europe) You can go to local VW dealer and order one and have it come but why is there no good US equivalent?? Something I can't understand that the big 3 haven't put more effort into them. maybe a smaller market but still would be a very strong one in light of the gas costs now. I know there is one guy who took a china 3 cyl diesel tractor engine and put into his older compact pickup getting 50+ mpg. need more people like him here and at the big 3 car dealers

Mark M