My milk was cost more per gallon than my gas today!!!

It's so bad here I've started putting gas over my rice krispies and filling the tank with half and half. My exhaust fumes are now a gorgeous fluffy white color but I have cats chasing the car everywhere I go

I drink rice milk because my doctor has taken me off dairy, and the rice milk tastes good and isn't all that expensive. But I have to get real milk for my son, who is one year old, and he goes through the stuff like crazy! Even when you buy the cheapest brand, it gets really expensive when you are buying it every couple of days! It costs about $4 now I think for a gallon of milk!

I don't buy regular milk so I am not sure what price it is at right now. Last time I checked, a half gallon of skim milk was more expensive than a half-gallon of soy milk (which is what I buy, ~$2.25 half gallon). We don't drink or use a lot of milk so that doesn't really affect us. We more get hurt by the increase in other dairy products like yogurt.

It's only 2 something where I live at; gas is higher. It must have to do with shipping costs. I know that it is NOT the farmer who is benefitting from any price hikes, it pretty much stays the same for us. Maybe it's a regional thing...we have a lot of dairy farms in our area, and a couple of plants that refine and bottle the milk. If there isn't one close to you, it has to be shipped in a refrigerated tanker truck to the facility, and then once bottled up, shipped in a refrigerated unit to the stores. With the increase of gas steadily rising, the cost of the transportation of the milk will be higher...therefore a higher price on the shelf. Powdered milk (dehydrated) is often cheaper to reconstitute and use in cooking and baking where the taste is not noticed; it's just as healthy. I have a hunch as the gas prices continue to rise that ALL of our foods will go up in pricing, and there's not too much we can do about it in the long run.

One alternative to the milk prices is to buy dry milk and mix it half and half with regular milk then it does not taste so bad. I have not bought milk in a long time so I do not know what it costs. MY hubby does most of the shopping.

A big part of why the price of milk is going up is all the politicians pandering to the upset over gas prices by pushing ethanol from corn as the great solution for gas shortage and the environment. This is just not true. At best the ethanol will barely make a dent in the amount of imported oil. As far as the environment goes it really is only about a break even after all the fertilizing and harvesting and refining and shipping of the ethanol(it can't be sent throug pipe lines like oil or gas). But using corn for making ethano is driving foold prices sky high, milk being just one of the first that is really getting bad, and you can look for double digit increases year after year if the ethanol craze and the diluded and short sighted politicians keep at it.

It's unreal actually where I live and being a small town 4.79 for a gallon of milk, funny thing is though gas dropped .20 sense Sunday.. I am not understanding this one.. Are the cow's drying up or something that's why milk is so expensive these days.. Unreal.. I can't live with out my milk.. I love it and my son does as well.. Personally I think sense food is going up mainly milk they should raise our wages as well.. Just my oppion...

Well, I did not know that part at all. I think it is hard to manage the cows now so they are charging for more for their hard work or something.

I have not priced powdered milk yet, but when I was trying to save money, when my kids were little, I would buy a small container of half and half, then mix and chill powdered milk and add two to four ounces of half and half to make it taste better. The WalMart brand is $4.08

Put the milk in the gas tank and drink the gas? I don't know what to say other than that a gallon of water will cost far more in the future...lol.

Hello, CrazyNurse! It's hard to believe that a gallong of milk is more expensive than a gallon of gas. It sounds way too insane for me! I don't think the price of milk is as high as there, here in Brazil. I pay something near R$2.00 for a litter of milk. That's around 4 Dollars. Do you think that it is too much expensive? Because for me, it sounds so normal! I think I have just got used to it.

They're about tied at around $3.00 a gallon each where I am right now. But they both seem to go up and down. One will be higher, then the other. According to the news, the price of feed, esp. corn has gone up due to ethanol gas being made out of corn. Bio-deisal is made out of soy. Powdered milk can be substituted in recipes, esp. baked goods where it is a small amount. The cost per gallon of powdered milk is less. We use bottled milk in our cereal and everything else we use powdered like for gravy. Greens (especially some wild greens like lamb's quarters) and broccoli subsitute well for calcium, but you must have a source of Vitamin D like sunshine or a vitamin pill.

Milk prices here aren't really high. They're about $3.49 a gallon, but they're not cheap, either. It must be continuing price inflation, and taxes. When you mean by alternatives, do you mean by other food sources besides milk? I personally do not have to purchase other kinds because I don't want to. But there's soy milk.