[Jacquerie]

This is part of the agenda of the relocalization movement, which itself is a recent reincarnation of a long-standing movement for localism.

Stalin called it Collectivism. It did not work very well.

[Clioman]

Here’s the tell-tale giveaway: how many of the ‘imaginers’ of the locality movement actually own (and live on) economically self-sustaining farms?

[Qout]

There are lots of alternatives to oil. How about steam tractors? An old technology that works on coal of which we have abundant supplies. Don’t like coal? Then use cornstalks. We’ll be environmentally PC and call it a biofuel.

Or plug your E-85 hybrid tractor into a windmill for a charge. Or put solar cells on the barn roof to charge up the hay baler.