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Rural/Farm Life

Warpy

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3. it's certainly an illustration of why when the oil goes

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 02:46 AM

Dec 2011

so will the cheap and very available food supply. While all this was once accomplished with animal power and can probably be done by solar power, the process will be a lot slower and more labor intensive.

The best favor we can do ourselves is try to encourage the craven fools in Congress to start cutting the Pentagon. The Pentagon is the largest consumer of petroleum products in the country, more even than personal autos.

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