Why does a gallon of milk cost more than a gallon of gas? Is there a shortage of cows?

Really depends on where you're at. A gallon of milk where I live (Seattle) doesn't cost more than a gallon of gas.

However, all foods (and a lot of other products) are starting to cost more BECAUSE of the raise in gas prices, simply for the fact that these products have to be delivered in trucks, planes, boat and all those things need gas to run.

Where I live a gallon of milk is $3.15 and a gallon of gas is $3.89 so I guess we have pleanly of cows around here. But in my opinion there isn't a shortage of cows. For example, the floods in the mid-west are effecting prices, because cows don't have anything to eat.

LOL, no there is no shortage of cows, the cost to feed the cows is going up so they need to raise there price for milk to make a profit.

There's a shortage of grain used to feed the cows as well as increased costs in transporting milk from farms to diary, from diary to stores.

It is terrible, isn't it? I'm considering doing what we did when we were young and poor and combining re-hydrated powdered milk with 2 percent to make it go further.

Really, where do you live, because where I live, in Arizona, gas is about $4.15 a gallon and I just went grocery shopping yesterday and I bought a gallon of milk for $2.99.

Its a nonstop process of increase in the fodder and transportation. My advice: Get a cow.

Actually there is no shortage of cows, but all the cows can't produce the ammount of oil that is produced, thats why it's more expensive. There is less of it.

It's because the cost of transporting it goes up because of the rising gas prices. Stores pay more to get it, so you have to also pay more.

cost of any product is supply & demand driven. People are willing to pay that amount for the milk, or they would either not sell it, or sell it for cheaper.

why is a gallon of evian water more expensive than gas?

why is a gallon of liquid gold more expensive than gas?

Gee, I can get a gallon of milk for 2.99 on sale.