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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| 41580. | iDontLoveMyCountry(I love m... | 55.38 | 92.5% | 2024-03-27 |
| 41581. | Beachhh_Houseee (beachhh_ho... | 55.38 | 96% | 2024-03-07 |
| 41582. | Eons (eons_) | 55.38 | 97% | 2024-04-04 |
| 41583. | Awil (cawaleyare) | 55.38 | 95% | 2022-01-30 |
| 41584. | Manny (mannyc70) | 55.38 | 93% | 2014-03-28 |
| 41585. | Derp (bandchick101) | 55.38 | 88% | 2013-12-02 |
| 41586. | Hieu (lehieu76) | 55.38 | — | 2010-09-30 |
| 41587. | G82DOOM (g82doom) | 55.37 | 96.8% | 2025-01-12 |
| 41588. | Andrew (drewvirya) | 55.37 | 95.3% | 2024-09-26 |
| 41589. | peekabo (ahyongyeo) | 55.37 | 97.6% | 2024-08-02 |
| 41590. | Sajjad Ali (a_sajjad_72) | 55.37 | 97% | 2024-04-18 |
| 41591. | Louis (marstosirius) | 55.37 | 97.1% | 2023-12-08 |
| 41592. | Zhengyang (mmm_jerome) | 55.37 | 95% | 2023-06-01 |
| 41593. | Youssef (iiyusuf) | 55.37 | 94.5% | 2023-12-28 |
| 41594. | Michael (tomisfat) | 55.37 | 92% | 2012-08-23 |
| 41595. | jasmine (chandani) | 55.37 | 97% | 2014-02-10 |
| 41596. | Pascal (okcompute) | 55.36 | 98% | 2025-04-15 |
| 41597. | Bryce (bp1044) | 55.36 | 97% | 2024-09-25 |
| 41598. | Bishal (subbabishalfrombhutan) | 55.36 | 99.5% | 2024-01-05 |
| 41599. | aeign (eyncore) | 55.36 | 97.3% | 2025-04-18 |
| 41600. | Carl (imcarll) | 55.36 | 93% | 2023-12-09 |
| 41601. | bigwayv (bigwayv) | 55.36 | 97% | 2020-07-01 |
| 41602. | fahis (fahis) | 55.36 | 96.8% | 2023-12-24 |
| 41603. | Aathi (aathi_b) | 55.35 | 93.7% | 2024-08-26 |
| 41604. | aju (aju_chacko) | 55.35 | 95.4% | 2025-03-09 |
| 41605. | wxxstd (wxxstd) | 55.35 | 94% | 2024-09-21 |
| 41606. | One (oneagain) | 55.35 | 96% | 2024-05-03 |
| 41607. | Jkyl (jkyl) | 55.35 | 95.2% | 2023-11-25 |
| 41608. | Andrew (android2102) | 55.35 | 92% | 2015-04-27 |
| 41609. | Nanner (jtannerbowles) | 55.34 | 94% | 2025-04-10 |
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| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |