Re: Oil Spicket Going Dry

From: Tim O'Flaherty (pinwheels_Fudge__at_gwi.net)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:40:20 -0400

"Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in message
news:%yD9d.12603$gs1.9600@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> "Tim O'Flaherty"> wrote
> > [ In 1970, a bushel of wheat could be traded for a barrel of oil in the
> > world market. It now takes nine bushels of wheat to buy a barrel of
oil. ]
>
> What would you rather have, food or gas?

With my diet lately I seem to get both. :-(

> Just hold back on the food and the oil price will plummet.

Maybe, but others have food too and oil is limited and becoming more so.
>
> > It will only get worse as oil becomes more expensive. Takes oil to make
> > and
> > ship grain too unless we want to use horses and sailing ships.
>
> If they are buying, then they can come pick it up too.
> Again, who is hungrier, the man with the food or the man with the oil?
>
Sure but we need to be able to make food without oil or with less oil to
still eat. Oil is finite.

BTW, My previous posts in this thread have disappeared from my server or at
least they don't appear on my screen. This isn't because of age because
there is much older stuff here but not messages I sent a week ago including
the one you replied to. Disturbing

Regards,
Tim O