According to the Energy Bulletin, a leading UK energy science magazine, food travels an average of 1,500 miles from the point of growth to where it is eaten in the United States. Also, for every one calorie of food consumed in the United States, 10 calories of oil were required to produce that food. Transportation sectors and agriculture are not the only industries dependent heavily on petroleum...
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Modern medicine requires extensive quantities of cheap oil for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and plastics. Water distribution requires synthetic chemicals for purification. A majority of consumer goods are made at least partially from plastics. In short, most industrialized economies today depend on an abundance of cheap oil, and almost none more so than the United States...
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