Re: Shell's 100-RON fuel - what actually is it?

Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Pooh Bear wrote:
>>>>> With all due respect I would like to know where the fertilizer comes

>>>>> from that grows the corn?  Isn't it a petrochemical based product?
>>>>
>>>> Are you suggesting that *fertiliser* is what the plant actually 
>>>> consumes to grow ? I suggest you learn something about how plants 
>>>> grow. They existed before fertiliser you know !
>>>
>>> Evasive non-answer. Farming *as practised today* is a very 
>>> oil-intensive process.
>>
>> It doesn't *have* to be.
> 
> Perhaps not, but the fact remains that right now, today, it IS.

My reading has suggested that farming today is more efficient than it
ever was. I find it hard to believe that efficiency will be increased
by eliminating the machinery that makes large-scale farming possible.

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