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		<title>These Prices are Bananas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe T.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I really liked bananas. I liked them so much that I decided that they would be the only thing I&#8217;d eat.  THE ONLY THING.  They would be the ONLY food I&#8217;d eat to give me energy to get around and power me through my day. Things have been good.  Bananas [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://bikingtoronto.com/joebikes/files/2011/04/banana-car.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-305" title="banana-car" src="http://bikingtoronto.com/joebikes/files/2011/04/banana-car-300x214.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="214" /></a>When I was a child, I really liked bananas.</p>
<p>I liked them so much that I decided that they would be the only thing I&#8217;d eat.  THE ONLY THING.  They would be the ONLY food I&#8217;d eat to give me energy to get around and power me through my day.</p>
<p>Things have been good.  Bananas still give me energy (although the resultant pollution is sometimes not so good&#8230; it&#8217;s a sacrifice I&#8217;m willing to make) and they&#8217;ve been pretty affordable.  Sometimes the price goes up, and sometimes it goes down, but I&#8217;ve been able to keep eating bananas.</p>
<p>This is a good thing, as my body has become so used to bananas that I can&#8217;t really eat anything else.  Alternative food fuel sources such as apples? oranges? meat? veggies?  Nope &#8211; can&#8217;t have them.  My body runs on bananas &#8211; and it can&#8217;t change.  I&#8217;ve tried to change &#8211; but I&#8217;m used to bananas, and comfortable with bananas, and most people I know eat only bananas.  Only hippies and treehuggers eat things like apples or carrots.</p>
<p>BUT!  THINGS ARE NOT GOOD!</p>
<p>Banana Prices are going up! Way UP!  Apparently all the banana fields are running out of bananas, and they can&#8217;t make more, because &#8230; um&#8230; something about &#8220;Peak Banana&#8221; &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand it&#8230; but there&#8217;s a graph that looks like a hill that swoops up and then swoops down.</p>
<p>Anyway, yeah &#8211; Banana prices are going up&#8230; and I&#8217;m spending more and more of my budget on Bananas because my body runs on bananas only&#8230; and I have no choice.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m spending less on everything else (which can&#8217;t be good for the economy) and more on bananas (which I bet the stupid greedy banana companies love) and my family budget is in shambles because somehow, for some reason &#8211; everyone else started eating only bananas, and now they TOO have to buy the same overpriced bananas.</p>
<p>Banana prices are SO high&#8230; and everyone is eating them and they can&#8217;t make more, and that means banana prices are going to go up further because of some economics thing I once kind of skimmed about supplies and demandings.</p>
<p>What are we going to do when banana supplies get so low and prices are up so high because everyone eats them and doesn&#8217;t want to eat anything else?</p>
<p>This will kill the economy.  I should go buy stocks in banana companies.</p>
<p>Why did I EVER decide to only eat bananas?  It was convenient, and cheap, and easy&#8230; and now it&#8217;s coming back to bite me in the ass.</p>
<p>Convenient, cheap and easy.  Too good to be true.</p>
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