[ExI] EP and Peak oil

[spike]

> ... On Behalf Of John Winters
> Subject: Re: [ExI] EP and Peak oil
...
> 
> Yes, but 1) the UK is much smaller and goods don't have to be 
> transported as far...


Clearly most processes in the US are absurdly inefficient.  An example would
be the distance that farm produce is hauled.

We have built extended suburbs on good farmland.  Sometime you will hear
people say we paved over all this farmland, but this is not the case.  Look
at a typical suburb in the states.  From the point of view of a driver on a
street, it appears that it is all pavement, roads, buildings and parking
lots.  But look at your home town on Google maps.  From that perspective,
you will see *plenty* of unpaved ground even in the burbs.  It is mostly all
grass of course, but if we needed to, we could grow edible plants on that.
It wouldn't sustain us completely, but could reduce our need for importing
food.  This is nothing new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden

We are not finished with the great urban colony collapse.  Today I found a
bee staggering around in my driveway.  I took her inside.  Within half an
hour she was dead, in a manner similar to those I observed last year.  Her
stinger is intact and her wings are not tattered (so it isn't an age related
fatality).  {8-[  I haven't noticed any other bugs besides bees perishing.
Any other bug watchers seeing anything noteworthy?  

The fruit trees will blossom in a few days.  I will likely be out there with
a foxtail brush trying to cross pollinate them manually.  In the future,
suburbanites may take up food production in their own yards as a hobby.  

spike