<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>></span>This only works if you can find food which is cheaper per BTU than whatever you are heating with.</div><div><br></div>This assumes people only eat what they need!<br><br>>it takes about 10 BTUs of fossil fuel to make 1 BTU of food in the American agro-business system.<br><br>Not if you don't consume factory farmed meat, dairy and eggs. But I suppose that is the agro-business system. Grains & Soy come from the same system, but we wouldn't need so much if we didn't have the factory farm demands.<br><br>So, going back to Alan's heretical observation, yes we do have to address our expectation. But perhaps more importantly we have to find a way of address this economic system that promotes unnecessary consumption. <br><br>~sanjay<br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;
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