Yes, it has been long. Please bear with me.

Over the last few weeks I have been annoyed, amused, frustrated and incensed at reading/hearing analysis relating to the increasing prices around us - food, oil, living. Analysis that puts the blame quite squarely on the developing world, or the middle-east, or anyone but here. Why? Because there are more people in the rest of the world that _combined_ use more resources than USA.

Combined.

And it's definitely not fair for 1/3rd of the world's population to use more oil or food or energy than North America does. Of course not.

I called up dad to find out what he pays for petrol. Over Rs. 52.00 a litre. Almost $5.00 a gallon. And we complain that developing countries like India are subsidizing their gas too much!

This NYT article is me screaming.

Indians Find U.S. at Fault in Food Cost