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 [Bittergreensgazette.blogspot.com] Bitter Greens Journal: May 2005: If a 10 percent increase amounts to $3 billion, that means US farmers spend about $30 billion per year on fuel and fertilizers.To put that number in perspective, the entire annual economic output of Guatemala--which the US is trying to lassoo into a free-trade pact that has the Farm Bureau salivating--is about $50 billion.

[Blog.islandpress.org] Island Press Environmental Issues Forum: The Silver Bullet for ...: Our leaders get paid very well and rising gas prices have little impact on their lifestyle, some of them think it’s good as it will engineer less waste of oil and maybe cure global warming, but America’s poor and lower middle class will get hit harder and quicker than just about anyone else on the planet because comparatively, we have ignored our public transportation and already live at the edge of economic crisis. The rising oil costs may eventually lead to widespread riots, the riots to widespread martial law, and all this could be right around the corner.

[Washingtonmonthly.com] The Washington Monthly: The oil companies use this boogeyman, because it sounds plausible, even though it's completely bogus. The oil companies really mean that they can't make the profit to which they think they're entitled without eliminating the environmental laws.

[Mykesweblog.com] Myke's Weblog: Environment: The magazine quoted research from the annual Stockholm Water Symposium that the pumps that transformed Indian farming are drawing 200 cubic kilometers of water to the surface each year, while only a fraction is replaced by monsoon rains. At this rate, the research suggested, groundwater supplies in some areas will be exhausted in five to 10 years, and millions of Indians will see their farmland turned to desert.

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