[ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM,  The Avantguardian
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>Can you point me to a State where electric tractors are being used extensively for farming? I don't recall ever seeing one. Thanks.?
>
> I can't do that but I can point you to a state where electric tractors haul thousands of tons of freight?hundreds of miles per day. That state is?California and the specific location is the?Port of Los Angeles.?Electric beats any internal combustion for "stop and go" because there is 0 idle cost. They can haul something like fifty tons per load. In any case farming involves lots of stop and go no??

No.

Most of the time a farm tractor is in the field, it is at close to
full throttle.

I wonder if I am the only one on the list with direct experience with
farming?  (Though in my case it is because two of my uncles and one
aunt were farmers.)

Keith