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> >I have more citrus than I will consume before it rots. How shall we  
> >solve the 2,000-mile transport energy issue?

Personally, of course, you won't.  But it is a proper use of whatever 
transportation we have to ship citrus in season to places where it is 
impossible to 
grow.   People have been doing such for thousands of years.  When transport 
was 
oar powered boats and ox carts, wine and olives, tea and chocolate, etc. were 
marketed thousands of miles from where they were produced.

> 
> >Consider, openly, that we are free to live as we do, largely because  
> >we are impregnable to invasion. That impregnability comes from massive  
> >economic strength. Much of that strength derives from petro-profits.


Our massive economic strength has feet of clay that of late have shown 
unmistakable signs of crumbling.  We don't have, as we once did, the strength 
of 
being the major producer of goods in the world and the major agricultural 
country.  Now our "strength" is all on paper (blips on the computer) and is 
backed by 
nothing real.  The world seems to be wising up to us.

And I'd add that part of our impregnability is due to a horribly beweaponed 
citizenry.   </HTML>