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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (362037)2/23/2003 3:54:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: "Both things are obvious, but unhelpful, since the productivity multiplier might easily make relative energy consumption more favorable under the mechanized regime."

>>> Perhaps.

>>> But, you may not be adding up all of the energy inputs into the system that I was referring to....

>>> In our mechanized system of agriculture (again, highly productive, but leveraging off of 'cheap' energy inputs and a finite and deplenishable top soil resource) relatively 'cheap' oil costs go to lower the bottom line for our 'high-till' methods of plowing, and mechanized harvesters... as well as lowering the input costs for our high use of pesticides/herbicides and chemical fertilizers.

>>> The fertilizer/pesticide inputs are not an inconsequential cost, either... and are largely derived from petro-chemical feedstocks.
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