Posted on 01/20/2006 2:41:33 AM PST by PurpleMountains
Not only do the world’s 600 million automobiles depend on oil, but also do almost every other critical aspect of industrial civilization: airlines, chemicals, plastics, medicines, agriculture, heating, etc. Almost all of the increase in world food productivity over the past 50 years is attributable to increases in the use of oil-derived additives: pesticides; herbicides; fungicides; fertilizers; and machinery. Oil is the one commodity without which civilization cannot exist.
(Excerpt) Read more at forthegrandchildren.blogspot.com ...
My favorite complaint lately. People who write a blog, then post an excerpt on here. It is like trying to get hits on their web site.
Exerpts are for the newspapers who will not allow full articles to be published.
You want me to read your blog, post the thing here. You ain't the LA Times, thank goodness.
Your life must be so trouble-free. It amazes me, when I think of my grandmother, who came to this country alone on a boat at age 17, and then brought her whole family over, that in our TV-remote age, one click is too much to ask.
I am not a famous person. You should learn a little about me and where I am coming from in confronting an issue with such serious consequences as this. Maybe read a few of my other posts on this and on other issues. If a few people decide they would like to visit my weblog again, what's the harm?
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