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Speaking of the farm economy, how will farmers farm or get their products to market without fuel?
vanity | by Jim Robinson

Posted on 08/10/2019 4:13:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Been listening to the democrats and the talking heads for the last few days worrying about the China trade negotiations and tariffs hurting the Iowa farm economy, especially soybeans for export to China.

Well, with every democrat running--including Biden--promising to eliminate coal, gas & oil if elected, I'm wondering how they expect the farmers to farm or get their products to market without fuel? Without tractors? Without farm equipment? Without trucks? Trains? Ships?

Obviously, eliminating coal, gas & oil would devastate the coal, gas & oil producing states, but also the states that depend upon abundant supplies of coal generated electricity to farm or run heavy industry and manufacturing plants. And fuel for transportation.

This would devastate the entire US economy if not the entire world economy.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: coal; democrats; electricity; energy; farmeconomy; farming; fuel; gas; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hydrocarbons; industry; manufacturing; oil; opec; transportation
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1 posted on 08/10/2019 4:13:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Democrats are becoming less intelligent by the nanosecond. Farmers cannot sell their profucts, solar energy would be a bust in the north most of the year, wind energy uses more than ir produces and elites fly to cl8maye summits in expensive jets. Commom sense wi5h them is not common.


2 posted on 08/10/2019 4:17:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Jim Robinson; SunkenCiv; Kaslin

Not just the trucks.
We are feeding 6 billion people every day with fossil fuels. Plowing, planting, harvesting, pruning, storing and shipping, cleaning, cutting, processing, canning, shipping, storing, sorting, cooking....


3 posted on 08/10/2019 4:20:18 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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My ancestors drove a team of oxen 6 six miles to bring milk and cranberries to a train depot. No trains will be allowed. The oxen and cows are also out because they make methane.


4 posted on 08/10/2019 4:21:08 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: madison10

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5 posted on 08/10/2019 4:21:43 PM PDT by deport
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They’ll take the bus, just like our enlightened betters.


6 posted on 08/10/2019 4:23:11 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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This would devastate the entire US economy if not the entire world economy.

Correct! Out of Chaos order will be restored. next Question?
7 posted on 08/10/2019 4:23:26 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Drones. Lots and lots of drones.


8 posted on 08/10/2019 4:25:56 PM PDT by Libloather (END CLIMATE CHANGE!)
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You can’t fix stupid.


9 posted on 08/10/2019 4:26:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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Using unicorn dust of course


10 posted on 08/10/2019 4:27:25 PM PDT by God cares
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Without fuel, 2/3rd of the world population will die from starvation, and a big chunk of the remaining people will die in war, trying to fight for the scraps that are left. That is the point. EUGENICS At Its best, To Get Down To THE 300 Million That THE Left deems worthy to survive. (see Jaques Cousteau ).


11 posted on 08/10/2019 4:28:31 PM PDT by richardtavor
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With Ethinol of course. Best dam fuel on the plant....until it wreaks your engine and poisons your ground water.


12 posted on 08/10/2019 4:29:20 PM PDT by Bommer (2020- Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!?)
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To: deport

ROFL Yeah, typing on the phone too fast. Talk about losing intelligence...


13 posted on 08/10/2019 4:31:28 PM PDT by madison10
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The old fashioned kind of scientist would have been telling the world to quit worrying about carbon dioxide from the feeble fires of humanity. For one thing, one good volcanic belch can outdo a year of what a worldful of humanity does with carbon dioxide. For another thing, carbon dioxide is yummies for green plants. When chlorophyll tangles up with carbon dioxide in the sunlight, the result is more plant stuff (wood, cellulose, and the other good things that God made plants to give us) and more oxygen too. For a third thing? A moderately warmer world, if the panickers are right about that part, might make the equatorial regions a bit stuffy — but it would also open up the permafrost areas of the world to habitability.

The new fashioned kind? They are worry warts without a basis.


14 posted on 08/10/2019 4:33:38 PM PDT by God cares
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Farmers and everyone else have to fill out a form to demonstrate a need for the fuel in order to get a ration coupon.
That's how it usually works in centrally planned economies.

15 posted on 08/10/2019 4:33:39 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Easy. They’ll just buy the app and download the farm products.


16 posted on 08/10/2019 4:35:49 PM PDT by omega4412
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And how much energy is consumed harvesting its raw material and distilling it, anyhow?

As the basis of beverages (ahem, to be consumed responsibly) that sell for a pretty penny, the cost of the energy is recouped. This way? It's a waste.

I'm chill about the "poisoning" -- there's enough natural fermentation around that nature should know what to do with ethanol -- and engines could be retrofitted to better handle the stuff (like the stellite valves and valve seats necessary to burn unleaded fuel were retrofitted). But the waste is a bigger problem.

17 posted on 08/10/2019 4:39:50 PM PDT by God cares
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Farmers cannot sell their products, solar energy would be a bust in the north ….

Dems haven't actually seen a farmer at their NYC neighborhoods or cocktail parties in the Hamptons. Therefore, they figure farmers can just take care of themselves, wherever they are. Most likely in some flyover state where they love Trump.

So long as they follow new strict regulations for free range chickens with soothing music and all organic vegetable farming with no pesticides for grain or corn farms. Just baking soda and grapefruit rinds to discourage bugs.

18 posted on 08/10/2019 4:41:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Possibly related:

How do you think they plan to reduce the population by 90-95%?


19 posted on 08/10/2019 4:42:50 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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You are under the mistaken impression that the Rats care if people survive. They don’t. The Rat Elites WANT the Earth depopulated. It makes for a better playground for themselves and their slaves. Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030. At a minimum they want to crowd us proles into tiny urban hovels to free up the land and scenic places for themselves without us proles to get in their way.

So what if several billion die. They don’t plan on being among them.


20 posted on 08/10/2019 4:44:49 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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