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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] like the early 1900's?
  • Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 22:10:31 -0600


Bottom line: everything that raises the cost of oil raises the cost of
chemical farming and long supply lines. Fertilizer, pesticides, and
herbicides are all fossil fuel derived. General price inflation will do the
same, and rising inflation is unavoidable. Any significant disruption to
world oil production will also do the same. And these cost escalators are
cumulative building on each other.

It's not the end of the world as we know it, just serious price shocks that
make fossil-free growing for local consumtion far more competitive on price
and chemical farming less. At some point local organic will be cheaper than
fossil fuel farmed and transported food. More like the early 1900's. You
don't have to be an economist to know which way the wind is blowing.

Spill backlash could lift drilling cost, oil price
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6456HF20100506

paul tradingpost@lobo.net







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