Thursday, April 19, 2007

Response to article Oil and Food: A Rising Security by:Danielle Murray

Oil is a huge part in our lives, specially when it comes to food. When we eat, we are literally eating oil. every time population increases the size of the farms warehouses where they make food increases as well, so does the machinery and the amount of oil that is used to make and transport these food.
Three fourths of what we eat is processed food which means it is food that has been grown, harvested, transported and cooked with oil. Instead of eating so much of that we shold start ating more legumes and garins that take less oil to grow and transport. Even packaging the food takes up oil and this is destroying our environment every day.
A way to save more oil is by buying food from the farmer's market which is much better because they don't take as much oil to make food ad other companies. Even though they are only .3 percent of food sales we need to go there more if we want to have a good future with no food scarcity and take more care of where we buy our food.

response to energybulletin.com

In this website it basically explain what is, what it means to us, and that we are not going to be able to use it soon. This worries me, because even though we are learning what to do and how to prevent ourselves from something bad happening to us due to scarsity of oil, other people in the world do not know and will not be ready when the time comes. There should be more people that go out there in the real world and try to inform people about it, because "knowing is power", and we need to learn how to survive, or how to not waste oil in stupidity.