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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (20979)	10/29/2004 3:46:35 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

16:1 ratio on calories for meat / jw

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (20979)	10/29/2004 3:48:11 PM
From: who cares?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

"yep, i've read it takes 10 calories of hydrocarbons to produce, process, package and deliver one calorie of plant-based food. probably an order of magnitude worse for livestock." That seems high. I just found some website that says a gallon of gasoline has 31mm calories or 31000 kilocalories which are what food calories are. Divide by 10 you'd only get a day and a half or so of calories per gallon of gas. Hmm maybe peak oil will be the solution to Americas obesity problem. I'm sure the way most US beef is made, aka big feed lot, energy cost have to be growing fast. Then there's big evil Europe where all the cows are mad cows, yet gee everywhere you go outside a city the cows are out in fields munching on real grass, getting fat slow and steady. And don't forget chickens where they have to be kept warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Maybe they can put in huge chicken houses in Palm Springs and power them with windmills. I was at a car auction in England a month or two ago where some old guy had died and of course the family instantly sells off his collection. The big car was a Mercedes SSK(I think it went for north of $6 or 7mm) that he bought from an RAF officer during the Battle Of Britain. It just wasn't right to be seen driving the big Merc to the airfield, so this guy got it for a song. It was completely unrestored, looked like crap, but that's what the upper end car snobs want nowdays, originality. This old guy that bought the car made his money farming, seems he was the first in his area to see the advantage of a tractor over plow animals. One wonders how long it will be before it swings back the other way.