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To: elmatador who wrote (78886)5/8/2008 5:54:27 PM
From: Dan3  Respond to of 116555
 
Re: They want more food? reward better the producer. They will produce more food.

Organization of Food Exporting Countries? Facing OPEC?

Trouble is, one of the main inputs to modern agriculture is energy. $75 per acre (of corn) alone, is for the natural gas used to produce the fertilizer.

Add in all the other production and transport costs and it turns out that, to a surprising degree, cost of food = cost of energy and energy = food which resolves to oil = food.