Agent23
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yeah,no, keep dreaming and maybe read a book in your life, rather than digging for whatever straw fits your narrative:Try some math with that dooming, it's good for you.
What is the diesel consumption per mile of trucks?
How much fuel does a truck consume? It depends on its size, load, as well as whether it carries out its journeys through urban or interurban environments.www.webfleet.com
Let's take a small semi like that, not the most optimal, as our baseline option. 25l of diesel is about 20kg of diesel, which is about 11,000 kcal per kg, so 220,000 kcal per 100km.
1kg of potatoes has about 700 kcal. That means 16 tons of them that our baseline truck carries have 11,200,000 kcal.
Conclusion being, that in order to move around a common staple food by one of less energy efficient but common means (trains, ships and river barges take less energy for the same distance and cargo), you would need to carry it for ridiculous 5090 km to reach 1:1 caloric cost ratio of transport fuel to cargo, which means that to get to double digits, you would need to circumnavigate the Earth and then drive some more. I'm not a logistics expert, but i think that would be a pretty stupid way to supply potatoes to anywhere. A more reasonable distance in US context is 1000-2000 km, and that's already pretty pessimistic scenario avoidable for most states if things get rough (the idea of California being a major food exporter may suffer).
But often it is the state’s incompetence that can help save us from the grip of statism and modernity—inverse iatrogenics. The insightful author Dmitri Orlov showed how calamities were avoided after the breakdown of the Soviet state because food production was inefficient and full of unintentional redundancies, which ended up working in favor of stability. Stalin played with agriculture, causing his share of famine. But he and his successors never managed to get agriculture to become “efficient,” that is, centralized and optimized as it is today in America, so every town had the staples growing around it. This was costlier, as they did not get the benefits of specialization, but this local lack of specialization allowed people to have access to all varieties of food in spite of the severe breakdown of the institutions. In the United States, we burn twelve calories in transportation for every calorie of nutrition; in Soviet Russia, it was one to one
You do realize that the fertilizers for the crops need to be transported, the corps need to be harvested, packaged, put through various forms of shipping in a long and complex supply chain just to get to the supermarket, then bought and taken home, right?
I experienced the portions size difference when I was in the UK a few times."I'm not fat, I'm just big boned."
More seriously, a lot of Americans simply don't have the time or money for a proper diet and American meal portions are also enormous.
I'm not sure what it's called in Bulgaria, but a "large" Big Mac combo with a Coke from a McDonald's drive-through is 1,400kCal all by itself and that's just lunch.
Heck, if you're going cheap and have a BOGO coupon 2 triple cheeseburgers and a cup of water is 1,100kCal for three dollars. That's my McDonald's lunch order.
I think the portions were triple the size of what I am accustomed to, and we are hardly the gold standard for healthy eating.
Like the staple tripe stew and raki diet, coupled with very lax oversight on stuff like HFCS and transfats.
And I have it on good authority that US portions are even bigger than UK ones.
Also, I just had a light dinner of lent and rice and now I am suffering for my sins on the treadmill.
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