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Bruce Steele says
The US uses about fifty percent of its soy crop for biodiesel, and produces 1.7 billion gallons of bio.
The US fleet consumes about 35 billion gallons of diesel.
So if we used our entire soy crop for biodiesel we would still need over thirty billion gallons of diesel to keep everything running.
Electrics don’t offer a via alternative anytime soon.
Nothing else to say except explore low tech alternatives. But nobody gives a shit.
Climate change will without doubt cause trouble in the longer term horizon. The downturn in world oil production will both moderate the climate problems and the population issues simultaneously.
Not much else to say.