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The oil in your oatmeal A lot of fossil fuel goes into our breakfast
SFGate.com ^
| Sunday, March 26, 2006
| Chad Heeter
Posted on 03/26/2006 9:37:59 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Dog Gone
The author is adding the "oil" that is used in producing the electricity that runs your refrigerator. Well, I guess that lets me off the hook. I happen to know that my electricity comes from coal. I guess he would hold me personally responsible for strip mining some mountain in Kentucky.
So, what does Mr Green Jeans suggest? Are we to go back to using mules and oxen, to plow our fields and to thresh our grain?
Oh, and he fails to mention the oil used for his Irish oats probably came from outside the British Isles, NOT from the Middle East.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:59:34 AM PST
by
Darnright
(Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
To: Nachum
Throw in the cost of embedded taxes and the food is almost free, at least cheap enough that you wonder how anyone made a profit on it. But all did. The wonders of free enterprise.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:00:12 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Nachum
a bowl of imported McCann's Irish oatmeal Well, I will give props for that. If you have ever seen the can, my great great grandfather is one of the signatories noted. He was Sec of Ag for Pa.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:03:22 AM PST
by
doodad
To: Mo1
Making beer is a energy intensive industry.
You gotta have farms that grow the hops, barley etc.
The farms need tractors that burn diesel fuel.
Ingrediants have to be transported to the brewery with trains or trucks, also burn diesel.
Once the beer is ready it needs to be transported to retail outlets, by truck or rail, still need diesel.
Here's a link I bookmarked awhile back that will really open your eyes:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476725/posts
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:05:26 AM PST
by
76834
(There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
To: Nachum
Chad Heeter grew up eating fossil fuels in Lee's Summit, Mo. He's a freelance writer, a documentary filmmaker and a former high school science teacher. Contact us at insight@sfchronicle.comWhat a wonderful resume for a Leftist
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:06:36 AM PST
by
digger48
To: libstripper
that modern civilization depends on such a supply
Yup, let there be a severe disruption of the fuel supply and all hell will break loose. It is fun to link "wasting food" with "wasting oil" though.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:06:49 AM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: Nachum
From the perspective of fossil-fuel consumption, I now look at my breakfast as a waste of precious resources. Cool, Conservatism will continue to be ascendant because not only do many liberals fail to have replacement rates births but soon, hopefully, they will just stop eating.
To: Dog Gone
That cup of java: 2 ounces of crude oil.
You would at least think the bleeding heart liberals would forego that luxury to make a simple, personal, honest statement of commitment.
On the other hand, if you spend $6.00 + tip at the restaurant, you are absolved of all blame.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:08:34 AM PST
by
Sundog
(cheers)
To: Nachum
If Mr. Chad Heeder thinks he has it tough in his kitchen there in Beserkly, he should try (and maybe has) the weekly menu on Brokeback Mountain. The link to that gastronomic experience will point out the expenditure of a certain amount of petroleum product as well, but there will always be some who will point out the imperative for using certain products to achieve social objectives.
Enjoy!
http://danvera.typepad.com/bloggo/2006/02/brokeback_menu.html
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:09:49 AM PST
by
billhilly
(The Democrat symbol is no longer the donkey, it's a strait Jacket.)
To: A message
Bumper Sticker: Conserve Americas Resources. My kids need them.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:09:56 AM PST
by
Sundog
(cheers)
To: 76834
In that case .. make it worth it and have a case of beer instead ;0)
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:10:57 AM PST
by
Mo1
("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
To: billhilly
Damn Rude and Damn Funny. John Wayne would have shot the buggers.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:11:53 AM PST
by
Sundog
(cheers)
To: Mo1
LOL
We think alike.
Plan to consume a few while watching NASCAR today.
Also NASCAR consumes a LOT of fuel
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:12:08 AM PST
by
76834
(There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
To: 76834
Plan to consume a few while watching NASCAR today.
What driver just died? That was on the radio a second ago.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:12:59 AM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: P-40
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:13:53 AM PST
by
Mo1
("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
To: P-40
Havnt heard.
Streaming the WABC Wilcow show.
If you find out let me know.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:14:00 AM PST
by
76834
(There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
To: Nachum
I hate to break this figment of the imagination of Russian, Mikhailo Lomonosov, in 1757, but
oil is not a fossil fuel.
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:14:10 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: Mo1
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posted on
03/26/2006 10:15:44 AM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: Nachum
Must have breakfast at the same place I do.
To: SamAdams76
Think of how many trees had to be killed so this tree-hugger's whiny article could get published? I think he should just kill himself right now before he harms our environment even further.
Or, more to the point, how much of our precious fossil fuels were consumed.
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