Comment You're more right that you know (Score 1) 272
Our food supply is based on oil. We don't rotate crops anymore. We couldn't possibly make enough food if we did. Instead we generate nitrogen as a by-product of oil and pump it back into the soil.
If the oil stops flowing some Americans might have to tighten their belts, but people around the world that depend on our surplus food would just starve...
If the oil stops flowing some Americans might have to tighten their belts, but people around the world that depend on our surplus food would just starve...