Reader comments: Surging prices spurring violent food riots

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Give intelligence a try... | 3:24 p.m. May 11, 2008
Step 1- drill for U.S. oil, fuel is the backbone of all societies. 2- Improve technology to burn fossil fuel, we are smart enough. Food prices will automatically drop when it isn't so expensive to distribute it. 3- Cut government subsidies and encourage competition. 4- Elect the common man to office, our politicians across the board are corrupt or entangled in policy.

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A man plants rice outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in early May. World rice prices have tripled since January, and some Asian countries have curbed rice exports in order to guarantee their own supplies. (Slamet Riyadi, Associated Press)
Slamet Riyadi, Associated Press
A man plants rice outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in early May. World rice prices have tripled since January, and some Asian countries have curbed rice exports in order to guarantee their own supplies.