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To: bart13 who wrote (94997)10/6/2012 11:56:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 219848
 
No, not at all precisely, and that's a detail to my point about gold being made of oil: <Do you know the energy data from the average miner income statement or not? It was an honest question. >

If the miner owns a car, they'll use something like 2000 litres of petrol, at $2 a litre - $4000. They heat their house. They eat food. They build their house. It all takes oil.

If you measure things by weight rather than dollars, you will see that there is a LOT of oil, coal, methane, excavated.

There is [I guess] more weight of oil/coal/gas produced than anything else. Miner food weighs about 800 kilograms a year [at 2 kg a day of food eaten - quite hungry miners]. Just their petrol weighs more.

Gold is made of oil. [near enough for government work and even for TJ gold mine project]

Mqurice
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