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CPI-U Index (not seasonally adjusted)

Dec. 1979 = 76.7
Jan. 2007 = 202.42

202.42/76.7 = 2.63911 which means 163.9% inflation over that time

Oil $38 in Dec. 1979 (monthly ave) = 38*2.63911 = ...

For the person asking about our cushion in case of a grain shortage:

In the United States, more than 9 billion livestock are maintained to supply the animal protein consumed each year (11). This l ...

You are way our of your league in this debate. A higher standard of living is what is responsible for the recent decline in the birth rate, not die-off. . And no, I said that disease and a loss of the ...

We're standing in rising water that's up to our chins and debating whether it's going to stop rising before it gets to our mouths or whether it's going to keep rising until it's over our noses.

A ...

Fletch, I agree with you about not being in overshoot by some modern standards of measure, but for the sake of the natural world, and in order to provide habitat for the natural world, we are so far b ...

I should have said infertility is on the rise. The correlation to overshoot?

Disease and a loss of fertility are the first two indicators of overshoot and collapse, followed by environmental degra ...

Then you have not yet grasped the irrefutable science behind a species' population bloom and collapse.

Bacteria in a petri dish, deer without predation,... yup I understand that-common knowledge. ...

I believe the argument was whether we have the capacity to sustain our population. If we are arguing about the trade deficit then I apologize.

Here is the quote you responded to:

3) Food: Food ...

You excluded 49.5 MMT of food when you excluded feed grain.

And I put it back. Doesn' t change the fact that we import more food than we export...and that was the whole argument. Period. Not that ...

You must not of understood my post. That is what I said. One, dent (field corn), which we grow the yellow variety of, is classified by the USDA as a feed grain-yet edible to human, think white, think ...

US corn(#2 yellow dent) = feed grain which you excluded.
Sweet corn = vegetable

Sorry. Not one and the same.

Whats not one and the same?

Seeing as you exclude corn but count the grain-fed meat, cheese that is imported right back you are probably right-at least in dollar value terms. Caloric terms - I doubt we are a net importer, but t ...

Take out all those in bold and I bet we import more food than we export.

Seeing as you exclude corn but count the grain-fed meat, cheese that is imported right back you are probably right-at least ...

3) Food: Food production per acre doubled and even quadrupled with the use of natural gas and oil produced fertilizers. 60% of our food may be exported, but you are missing an important part of this , ...

Sorry for the late night poor grammar and lack of clarity. I should have said that per capita cereal grain production has declined for the past 6 of 7 years, and the trend seems to be continuing that ...