This is just getting to be fun*. Bad ethanol policy leads to increased demand for corn. The price of corn goes up which raises the price of feeding livestock, like cows. The increased cost of feeding cows leads to higher prices on cow related prodcuts, like milk. Higher milk prices leads to higher prices on products that use milk, like STARBUCKS coffee:
Starbucks Corp will raise U.S. prices on coffee, lattes and other drinks by an average of 9 cents a cup next week to help offset soaring costs for milk and other commodities, a spokesman said on Monday.
The widely anticipated move marks Starbucks' second price increase in less than a year and comes a month after the coffee shop chain's chief financial officer warned it would be "very challenging" for Starbucks to meet the high end of its 2007 earnings forecast, in part because of rising dairy prices.
U.S. milk prices have soared recently amid strong global demand for dairy products and higher production costs.
