There is a rice crisis all over the world, ladies and gentlemen.

Americans are hoarding rice. Sam’s Club, a unit of Wal-Mart, is putting limits on the amount of rice that people can buy. This is happening in San Francisco. It’s happening in Thailand. People in America, Filipinos, are hoarding rice and shipping it to their relatives back home in the Philippines — and this is happening with other crops as well, but rice, corn oil, cooking oil, a number of things that you would consider staples; prices are rising, supplies are dwindling.

There was a story from a woman in California who had just opened a new bake shop or something. She needed to get some butter, went out to the grocery store, and no butter.

Of course, this is due to numerous things.

It’s due to the rising price of transportation fuel, but it’s also due to the fact that a lot of crops that we used to grow for food are now being grown for global warming.