# Bye Bye U.S. Sugar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 1, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954 "2008-07-01T19:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954/1 "2008-07-01T19:42:12Z")

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The State of Florida is buying up all of U.S. Sugars assets. [Here](http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article651569.ece) is the story. Three hundred square miles of sugar cane land will hopefully become a natural resource instead of an environmental disaster. That’s my hopeful thought of the day.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954/2 "2008-07-02T01:20:29Z")

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I listened to the NPR story on this tonight, on the way home. It seems like the everglades is not just an evrionmental thing, but it could spell doom for 6 million people in South Florida if nothing was done to reverse the level. I don’t have the time right now to search, but it’s out there.

You have to feel sorry for people who thought their job/life was always gonna be secure, but times ain’t what they were even 5 years ago.

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**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954/3 "2008-07-02T02:07:51Z")

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[Here’s the link to the NPR story.](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92103266)

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bye-bye-u-s-sugar/454954/4 "2008-07-02T06:05:35Z")

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Well, they may fix that environmental disaster but they’ll balance it off by allowing oil drilling off the coast so we can have many more environmental disasters in our future.