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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Doomsday Scenario: Cheap vodka, rural America goes dark ]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/bad-news/" rel="tag">Bad News</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/commodities/" rel="tag">Commodities</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/agriculture/" rel="tag">Agriculture</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/recession/" rel="tag">Recession</a></p><img hspace="4" border="1" align="right" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2009/03/elbfoto.jpg" alt="" />Good morning! A <em>New York Times</em> article reports that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/business/08feed.html">cheap booze is seeing a nice sale spike</a> as folks swap out premium or even mid-market brands for rotgut. Popov &amp; Tonic, anyone? The Prince of Darkness over at Zero Hedge illuminates us as to the possibility that a major supplier of financing to rural electrical cooperatives <a href="http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-search-of-next-big-widening-thing.html">could go dark</a>, taking down dozens of utilities in the sticks with it. Maverick ratings agency Egan Jones began calling this a while back.<p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Doomsday Scenario: Cheap vodka, rural America goes dark </em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/">Doomsday Scenario: Cheap vodka, rural America goes dark </a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/1482336/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/03/09/doomsday-scenario-cheap-vodka-rural-america-goes-dark/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>alcohol</category><category>cheap liquor</category><category>construction</category><category>corn</category><category>EU</category><category>exports</category><category>imports</category><category>milk</category><category>San Frnacisco</category><category>subsidies</category><category>vodka</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Salkever]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
