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In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.
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food-production
petroleum
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Joel Salatin |
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So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.
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corn
cows
factory-farms
food
industry
oil
petroleum
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Michael Pollan |
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Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
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middle-east
oil
oil-reserves
petroleum
petroleum-politics
politics
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.
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petroleum
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Thomas Pynchon |