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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-02-06 02:23 AM
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25. Stan Goff wrote that
there is no decent substitute for oil in the near=term. It was laughable how Bush talked about using vegetable by-products and wood chips to replace our dependency on oil.

I've read that we can start using vegetable oil in our gas tanks soon. The problem is, and it always will be: there is not enough of anything that can replace oil in the short run. We're stuck with our dependency on it.

Also, the world population right now is at 6 1/2 billion people. Agriculture is highly dependent on oil: petroleum fertilizers, tractors use gas, gas for harvesting, shipping the produce to the market, etc.

By itself, the world can only sustain about 2 billion people. That means that 4 1/2 billion people are at risk.

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