| You all don't understand what I am saying I think, but thats alright I guess, let me try again. You see, all the tractors in the world require oil. If American farmers can't afford it, no other country is going to be able to afford it either. If the worlds agricultural production slows down even - not even stops just slows down - we go into famine and people start dying until, as Drifter stated, we get below the carrying capacity. So, we are at 6 Billion right now as a whole, it slows down, and realistically it would be more than a 1/6th drop off, people die at the same rate. Now, if you want the drastic measure, what happens if mechanized agriculture stops all together? We go back to hunter/gatherer days, or maybe family gardens. If that happens, nobody works anymore, because they have to work all day long to produce enough food to feed themselves. Can you all see where I am going yet?
Eventually oil is going to run out anyway, so yes we need to figure something else out, but we don't have that technology yet, and if the oil is just cut off we won't have the chance to invent that technology.  |