Virtuous circle alert...

Study finds a healthier diet and a return to traditional farming can help reduce energy consumption in US food system by 50 percent

50 percent?! Holy crap! So now we have another benefit to eating less:

• trim our phat arses
• live longer
• support small family farms
• stick it to the man (think of any industrial ag company and then think of not giving them your money)
• save money
• eat healthier chow

I'm sure there are others I have forgotten.

Why does this list seem so obvious? Why does it seem so hard to follow through on?

Almost never do people look at processor power or storage capabilities and cost trade-offs and decide, 'What does this mean to us in three to five years?

I think we fall into this same trap when considering our plans to, say for instance, ween ourselves from foreign energy supplies. The estimates made by the experts of our energy policies often reflect current capacities... like how much of our energy needs could be met by wind, solar, or geothermal investments.

And yet, every single day smart folks around the world invent new technologies, or improve current ones, that improve efficiencies and costs which taken together could help us reach our goals.

All I'm saying is that from now on, I'll be taking the prognostications of 'experts' in the current regime with a grain of salt when they try to tell us that we'll never be free of oil. (OK, so I already ignore them, but you could too.)

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