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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: activism98201@verizon.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the oil we eat/ the myth of America feeding the world/
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:58:23 -0600


http://www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html is a must read, folks.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

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On 6/18/2006 at 12:14 AM Mark Nagel wrote:

>These might be of interest:
>
>The Oil We Eat
>http://www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html
>
>The Peak Oil Crisis
>Ethanol and Peak Food
>http://www.fcnp.com/612/peakoil.htm
>
>
>University of Manitoba professor Vaclav Smil is able to calculate that
>roughly 40% of protein in all of human bodies world-wide wouldn't exist is
>not for modern synthesized nitrogen. This nitrogen is synthesized using
>natural gas. Natural gas makes up about 70% to 90% of the manufacturing
>costs of nitrogen.
>
>NOTE: The above info on Smil is from my unpublished op-ed. I'll post it
>next weekend.
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
>
>
>=====================
>From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>
>
>Then it would help to see how much petroleum we eat, wouldn't it. Anyone
>have the numbers out there?
>
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