Oct. 6, 2004 – World oil production is now peaking and in a few years the cost of producing and shipping food long distances into the Virgin Islands will be phenomenally expensive.
It's imperative that the infrastructure for local food production be in place sooner rather than later to offset this.
Joseph Graffis
Frederiksted, St Croix
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