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Conan the Farmer
Posted 11/24/2018 15:41 (#7124859 - in reply to #7124721)
Subject: RE: Maybe not.. but..



South Central Iowa
Yes, WWII was the last total war. The energy that powered it was of course a tactical and strategic objective once underway. It was not fought BECAUSE of oil though as Thunder implied. That is a very important distinction. Our wars in the Middle East are driven by our desire to keep oil supplies secure. Terrorist reprisals against us are largely premised around our presence in that sand pit. Our responses to those terrorist actions are based around keeping stability in that region to, again, keep oil supplies secure.

There is an old guy I know, who is still alive!, who was a tail-gunner on those bombing runs over the Romanian Oil Fields. He sat in this glass bubble and watched flak fly up in the air and fall back down. He said nothing made you pucker up quite like watching those shells. They would float within view and you just hoped they would fall back down. Luckily for him, they did. He said when they reached equilibrium and hung in the air, it felt like the plane wasn't moving, the shell would not fall, and time had stopped; like it would hang there for minutes even though it was very brief in reality. He said you just had to hope that you got out of range before the next one could get up there; the Germans rarely missed the altitude on the second try.

Edit: Forgot the ethanol. We should have pivoted along time ago. Diversification of our liquid fuels is a good idea. It helps insulate against price spikes and supply disruptions. Besides. If we had E30, we could still grow enough corn. Our national yield will be over 200 within 5 years at the pace the USDA is on. Theoretically we could make over 50 billion gallons of ethanol if the infrastructure were there. That's 35% of our ~143 billion gallons of gasoline consumed per year.

Edited by Conan the Farmer 11/24/2018 15:48
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