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What are inexpensive staples in your country?

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    The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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      The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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      I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

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        The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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        Clay, I can walk 100 meters and dig it out of the ground for free.

        Water, it rains about 200 days a year.

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          I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

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          Gas? It's so much cheaper than the EU, even when it's at its more expensive in the US

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            Gas? It's so much cheaper than the EU, even when it's at its more expensive in the US

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            Mhm, even when prices are at outrage levels in the US it's probably half the price of what it typically sells for in Europe.

            The quality is a little better, though (e.g. less sulfur, typically of a higher octane rating).

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              The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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              Take all this for a grain of salt I'm at work and didn't have time to verify these numbers. I got them from AI, but the order makes sense. They also don't include secondary and tertiary effects. E.g. what tariffs on China will do to goods imported from Japan.

              In the United States, corn, soybeans, and wheat are projected to go up a maximum of 5%. We produce upwards of 40% of those goods, so they will be the ones which will impact other countries the most. Meat will go up more. We domestically produce 12-15% of the world supply of pork and beef. Produce is going to be hit badly. Up to 40%.

              Gasoline and other fossil fuels is difficult to determine. We import a lot from other countries, directly from Canada, but companies based out of the United States have off shore drilling rights in locations around the world. Increased costs of fossil fuels, may have increased incentive for renewables and nuclear, but oil companies have historically passed those losses on to consumers.

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                Mhm, even when prices are at outrage levels in the US it's probably half the price of what it typically sells for in Europe.

                The quality is a little better, though (e.g. less sulfur, typically of a higher octane rating).

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                I have no clue here, so can you clarify your last sentence?

                Where is the quality better? Europe or USA?

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                  I have no clue here, so can you clarify your last sentence?

                  Where is the quality better? Europe or USA?

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                  Europe has better fuel, due to generally more stringent requirements with regards to emissions.

                  Source: My dad, who used to work with regulations around such things.

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                    Europe has better fuel, due to generally more stringent requirements with regards to emissions.

                    Source: My dad, who used to work with regulations around such things.

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                    Thank you!

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                      I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

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                      Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.

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                        The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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                        Canada. Lentils, potatoes , rice.

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                          The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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                          There is only relatively expensive.
                          Literally everything has gone up with every excuse possible.
                          Covid, some ship that blocked the Suez canal?!, war in ukraine, not enough rain, too much rain.
                          Prices never go down after.

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                            The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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                            US, specifically southeast Michigan: Ramen, bread, and spaghetti, though as other commenters have said everything has gone up, so even these.

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                              The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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                              Lotta cranberry bogs here, and tomatoes.

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                                There is only relatively expensive.
                                Literally everything has gone up with every excuse possible.
                                Covid, some ship that blocked the Suez canal?!, war in ukraine, not enough rain, too much rain.
                                Prices never go down after.

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                                Yup. And here we are, still blaming covid for shortages and "supply chain disruptions".

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                                  Canada. Lentils, potatoes , rice.

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                                  Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don't really grow rice in Canada. There are some examples, but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I've never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

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                                    I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

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                                    The US overproduces some crops that USAID used to buy and send overseas. The local supply will increase, some reckon by a lot, and prices may crash as local demand is just not there.

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                                      The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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                                      The cross-section between high volume and easy to make

                                      • Vegan replacement products? Easier to make than animals, but low volume so it's more expensive than it needs to be (and often in a higher tax bracket, classified as candy or whatever)
                                      • Eggs? Needs healthy animals
                                      • Bananas are clones of each other. Might become an issue at some point, might not. Apples, too, but there's many more variants
                                      • Maize, tomatoes, potatoes? Grown by the bazillion, cheap, afaik needn't be clones of each other to get (something close enough to) the desired product
                                      • Rice? The pre-boiled stuff is afaik around the same price as the raw product, that's how large the volumes are
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                                        Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don't really grow rice in Canada. There are some examples, but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I've never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

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                                        No but the question was staples that remain cheap. We buy a lot of Rice from India, even as prices may rise it is still cheap. A 10 or 20 lb bag of rice lasts a long time for meals.

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                                          No but the question was staples that remain cheap. We buy a lot of Rice from India, even as prices may rise it is still cheap. A 10 or 20 lb bag of rice lasts a long time for meals.

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                                          Oops, I didn't see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet πŸ˜›

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