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MarkL
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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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Member vox_mundi submitted this to our main news page. The source has a political agenda so I rejected it but it's still a good story - worth posting here.
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Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back
| Quote: | Is there a famine in our future?
When we start putting food in our gas tanks, we know Americans would rather drive than live.
"We're having a world-wide food crisis," murmured the New York Times. The rest of the media took their cue, as they usually do, and headlined the new event.
The Los Angeles Times put it this way, "Vegetable oil isn't a crime--is it? Diesel owners who switch to cooking grease can run afoul of the law. Just ask the governor." The state wants its tax on alternative fuels just as they get it from the sale of gasoline.
Drivers, in all the esoteric places, are converting their cars to run on used cooking and frying oil. Some restaurants that once found it a burden to dispose of used fry-oil are now thinking of charging for it.
But, of course, the 800 lb gorilla in the world is Ethanol. |
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RedStateGreen
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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| Quote: | Some restaurants that once found it a burden to dispose of used fry-oil are now thinking of charging for it.
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I was wondering how long that was going to take...
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yesplease
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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| Quote: | Is there a famine in our future?
When we start putting food in our gas tanks, we know Americans would rather drive than live. |
Americans still have trouble w/ obesity, so it isn't a matter of us living AFAIK, it's all those who rely on the exportation of cheap subsidized food which suddenly has become more expensive thanks to Ethanol tariffs and subsidization.
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idiom
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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| So Peak Oil is going to solve Global Warming and Obesity? (till everyone remembers where the coal is then its just the Obesity). |
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yesplease
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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| idiom wrote: | | So Peak Oil is going to solve Global Warming and Obesity? (till everyone remembers where the coal is then its just the Obesity). |
Yeah sure, why not aids and erectile dysfunction too...  
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idiom
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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Well Aids is solving itself. Although Quarantine would go a long way.
Erectile Dysfunction? Well there is a *lot* more doomer pr0n around these days... |
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Slouching Toward a Population Die-Back |
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They say too much d00m3r porn makes it hard to get up when it comes down to the real deal... 
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