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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>  I'm afraid that when the feces hits the fan and everyone needs locally
> grown food (because the stuff imported from California will be wilted and
> way too expensive to buy), the number of local truck farmers will be way 
> too low to supply demand.

Lots of truth in lots of things people have said, are saying, and will say 
about the energy situation. Most is hyperbole. Seems to me oil depletion 
will happen gradually, man will adapt, there will be no EOTWAWKI. Rising 
prices have many effects. Many are improvements on the old system.