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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] As oil prices rise so will the price of food.
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 22:26:41 -0600


It's the End of the World (As We Know It)
Oil Production Peak Much Sooner Than Expected
May 14, 2010 by Craig Severance
http://energyeconomyonline.com/End_of_World_as_Know_It.html

I love my big burgers, but this too may come to an end if corn-fed beef gets
too pricey. To replace a paltry 6% of U.S. gasoline, we already feed 1/3 of
the entire U.S. corn crop to the corn ethanol industry, with impacts
worldwide on crop prices, conversion of rain forest to cropland, and ocean
dead zones from fertilizers. Ethanol corn use is projected to increase to 1/2
of the entire U.S. corn crop by 2015 under Congressional mandates.

If you actually had to raid your refrigerator to fuel your car, you would see
the obscenity of feeding food to machines. Yet this is exactly what we are
doing. One of the worst decisions ever made was to build the infrastructure
to convert food crops to fuel, because we have now directly tied the price of
food to the price of fuel. As oil prices rise so will the price of food.








  • [Livingontheland] As oil prices rise so will the price of food., Tradingpost, 05/17/2010

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