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Energy, Food, Revolution – an Inextricable Link
Posted by Sharon Astyk on March 2, 2011
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If you want to see it in color, all you have to do is google image up a history of the price of oil and superimpose it on the price of various staple crops. Take a look at oil and then rice, soybeans, wheat and corn. Look closely at 2008, and at the present. I…
It Comes Back to Food and Energy…Again
Posted by Sharon Astyk on January 31, 2011 Stuart Staniford has a terrific piece that offers a little visual clarity about food, energy, unemployment and the Riots in the Middle East and North Africa: Tunisia is a minnow in the global oil market, Egypt slightly more important. Algeria, however, matters a lot as its oil production is probably close to total demonstrated OPEC…