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The Oil We Eat.
    #5861488 - 07/15/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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The common assumption these days is that we muster our weapons to secure oil, not food. There's a little joke in this. Ever since we ran out of arable land, food is oil. Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten. In 1940 the average farm in the United States produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 (the last year in which anyone looked closely at this issue), that ratio was 1:1. And this understates the problem, because at the same time that there is more oil in our food there is less oil in our oil. A couple of generations ago we spent a lot less energy drilling, pumping, and distributing than we do now. In the 1940s we got about 100 barrels of oil back for every barrel of oil we spent getting it. Today each barrel invested in the process returns only ten, a calculation that no doubt fails to include the fuel burned by the Hummers and Blackhawks we use to maintain access to the oil in Iraq.




http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080904G.shtml

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Re: The Oil We Eat. [Re: GabbaDj]
    #5861659 - 07/15/06 11:59 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

James Lovelock recently said the sustainable population of the US by 2100 will be around 500,000. The rest will starve.

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