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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> I am optimistic that our food production system will become localized.
> All data regarding available land and government direction leads me to
> pessimism. The few huge corporations that now control the food system
> will retain their control and keep the present system until it becomes
> more profitable to change.
>
> Therefore my view that the highway system is not only necessary but
> productive and will continue thus for a long time.
I had hopes that the high fuel cost would force the issue. If shipped food 
became too expensive, local food production would pick up the slack. I've 
talked to a lot of people around here who would love to farm, but "can't 
make a living" doing it. If enterprizing people could make a livable income 
farming, many more would. But the  'cheap food' policy has to end; as long 
as they can ship a  tomato from California or Florida to Pennsylvania and 
sell it for $1.59/pound (the price this week at the BiLo), we won't have 
much local food. I can't compete with that price.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA