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this is simply not true. farmers are going to be the few who can bid for oil. if they don't get it who will? our food will cost more but the farmers will get oil.
What you say would be true in an egalitarian society. But disparity of income in North America is so great that rich people will be flying around in ethanol-fueled jetplanes long after long after fuel prices have driven farmers bust, and their farms to abandonment.
What will these rich people eat? If it comes to it, they will buy their own private farms and buy their own private farmers for their own private use.
And everyone else will be invited to starve.
And that is the plan that our governments have for North America.
One very big 'glitch' in either the planting or the harvest season could easily take this country to its knees.
The effects of last springs anomaly is still rippling thru the system and causing many effects and that was nothing really as far as what nature could easily serve up if she so desired!!!!
We are extremely vulnerable due to our methods. A big cold snap precisely timed , like last spring? Well you get the idea. Look at the runup in wheat prices, hay prices,etc.
If other non-nature induced events transpired? Akin to some manmade event? I shudder to think of the consequences. For the last two planting seasons there were some mad scrambles over farm diesel fuel,such that we had to resurrect an old tanker and go find and haul our own.
BTW that tanker was ordered sent to Katrina to haul and hold fuel. Order were given to the driver to go armed and not stop for anyone. If stopped take what measures were necessary to proceed.
Yes it was just that bad. The drivers returned with stories of armed to the teeth guards,dead bodies being eaten by gators,and more.
It was a big wakeup call. Most likely disregarded it. I was not tapped to make the run with the tanker and would have demurred if I was chosen. We sent a loser guy instead. One we could afford to lose.
airdale
There's nothing egalitarian about that. If marginal farmers can't afford to grow food, food supply will go down, and prices will then rise. If prices rise enough, more farmers will be able to afford to grow crops again. If prices don't rise enough, they'll keep rising until those marginal farmers can afford to grow crops again. This is basic economics, and won't break down until we abandon markets for setting prices. In that case, the government will be rationing fuel to make sure that farmers get their share. Nothing incites revolutions like famine.
That doesn't mean that farmers will become rich. "Dirt-poor" might take on its former meaning, but at least most farmers will be employed and mostly be able to make ends meet, if only barely. They will be far better off than poor people off the farm, who may have a difficult time finding work or food.
Way too many armed ,hungry neighbors for that meal to be quiet.I have noticed government plans change when the people are bone mad...