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Old 14-04-2008
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Re: Ethanol cars run on human misery

Cheap energy is running out.

The only reason food has been cheap in the last 100 years is because we discovered oil. Calories of oil have been converted into calories of food through use of tractors, chemicals (fertilisers), transport (economies of scale). As the cost of oil goes up, so the cost of food goes up. And as we breed more and more people, so the demand for food goes up and the faster the oil runs out.

The price of food is going to go up, I don't really think there is anything we can do about it. Lots and lots of people are going to starve until we can effectively and quickly convert solar energy into chemical energy or potential energy this isn't going to change. There is no other source of cheap energy left but that which comes from the sun.


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