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		<title>Why the price of &#8216;peak oil&#8217; is famine</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/02/11/why-the-price-of-peak-oil-is-famine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the logical outcome of using fossil fuel inputs to grow food, and then turning that food into fuel.

As Evans-Pritchard points out, “energy and food have ‘converged’ in price and can increasingly be switched from one use to another,” which is just a polite way of saying that, in a time of scarcity, rich people’s ability to pay for fuel will quickly outstrip poor people’s ability to pay for food. 

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<h4> Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine</h4>
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
<em>The London Telegraph</em>
February 9, 2008

Vulnerable regions of the world face the risk of famine over the next three years as rising energy costs spill over into a food crunch, according to US investment bank Goldman Sachs.

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		<title>The January B-List</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/31/the-january-b-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Are you an online news hound? Do you use del.icio.us to tag your favourite articles? Then you&#8217;ve got what it takes to become a B-List stringer! All you have to do is tag the best articles you can find (radical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have we already hit peak oil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many readers will already be familiar with the concept of peak oil &#8212; the observation that, over time, oil-producing regions reach a maximum rate of extraction, after which oil production begins to enter a terminal decline. North American oil production peaked in 1985; British oil production peaked in 1999. The question of when global oil [...]]]></description>
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