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Food and peak oil
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:32AM
For those that haven't thought about it yet, there's an uncomforably close relationship between food and oil, as highlighted in a recent report from the Bristol Partnership's Peak Oil Report:
"For every calorie of food energy delivered, 7-10 calories of fossil fuels are used to produce it. According to a July 2008 government report, the transportation of food alone accounts for a third of the 20.6 million tonnes of oil used in the UK food chain each year"
The report quoted was the Cabinet Office's 'Food Matters'.
tagged food secturity, peak oil
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