It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food.
—from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a book by Michael Pollan
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| 41938. | silver (siilvered) | 49.27 | 96.2% | 2023-11-22 |
| 41939. | Ali (ali0007) | 49.27 | 92% | 2014-05-07 |
| 41940. | Justin (justin4_0) | 49.26 | 96% | 2024-07-29 |
| 41941. | Jawad (maebak) | 49.26 | 95.5% | 2024-04-17 |
| 41942. | Himanshu (himsingh11) | 49.26 | 95% | 2022-02-23 |
| 41943. | Caleb (reflux2k) | 49.26 | 93% | 2020-07-09 |
| 41944. | Akuma (akumaayush) | 49.26 | 95% | 2021-04-26 |
| 41945. | Key (rayray1990) | 49.26 | 95% | 2014-11-13 |
| 41946. | hendrael (hendrael) | 49.25 | 95% | 2024-11-15 |
| 41947. | kurax (kurax97) | 49.25 | 94% | 2024-06-26 |
| 41948. | Teja (teja99) | 49.25 | 96% | 2025-03-21 |
| 41949. | R2cord (r2cord) | 49.25 | 94% | 2024-01-19 |
| 41950. | avrox2 (avrox2) | 49.25 | 95% | 2025-01-21 |
| 41951. | Astitva (astitva77) | 49.25 | 95.2% | 2024-01-08 |
| 41952. | Mykie Sixx (mykiesixx) | 49.25 | 93% | 2013-05-30 |
| 41953. | boen (boengituloh) | 49.25 | 93% | 2011-05-13 |
| 41954. | piya (piyatos) | 49.24 | 95.5% | 2024-05-11 |
| 41955. | kosuke (kosuke) | 49.24 | 92% | 2013-03-19 |
| 41956. | ad_raj (ad_raj) | 49.23 | 96% | 2025-01-26 |
| 41957. | Johnny (johnny_netgeer) | 49.23 | 99% | 2022-02-07 |
| 41958. | Rudy (slickback325) | 49.22 | 93% | 2024-06-15 |
| 41959. | AGR (typing_agr1) | 49.22 | 96% | 2024-02-16 |
| 41960. | Adhi Krisna (adhi_krisna22) | 49.22 | 95% | 2023-12-07 |
| 41961. | Jiří (jironer7) | 49.22 | 95% | 2019-10-31 |
| 41962. | derek (derekj) | 49.22 | — | 2010-07-24 |
| 41963. | David Chan (davidcharm) | 49.21 | 96% | 2024-09-29 |
| 41964. | Mauricio (kenze) | 49.21 | 99% | 2024-03-25 |
| 41965. | Nattawat (ormza5511) | 49.20 | 93.1% | 2025-03-29 |
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