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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13289. | Guest (tleclerc) | 80.55 | 96% | 2024-02-11 |
13290. | imbecile_panda (imbecile__p... | 80.55 | 97% | 2024-04-15 |
13291. | Meg (meggnn) | 80.55 | 96% | 2023-04-30 |
13292. | Vald (valdik) | 80.55 | 99% | 2015-01-31 |
13293. | NetBookKid (drdynamicnb) | 80.55 | 96% | 2012-12-12 |
13294. | Arash (arashhetfield) | 80.55 | 96% | 2012-12-07 |
13295. | Nuts (sumguy69) | 80.54 | 94% | 2021-08-04 |
13296. | Trevor (super64guy) | 80.54 | 98% | 2024-02-14 |
13297. | aman (amanrai2802) | 80.54 | 97.1% | 2023-11-18 |
13298. | LEKOLUL TYPES SHT (lekolul1) | 80.54 | 96% | 2022-10-12 |
13299. | Tiddy (tiddytwister) | 80.54 | 96% | 2022-06-21 |
13300. | Douglas (wndpcp) | 80.54 | 97% | 2014-03-31 |
13301. | RIP Reckful (suparmon) | 80.54 | 95% | 2013-02-25 |
13302. | Super (jrc07) | 80.54 | 96% | 2017-09-12 |
13303. | Speeder (zberkom) | 80.54 | 97% | 2015-03-17 |
13304. | (`_`) (man_of_steel) | 80.54 | 93% | 2013-01-22 |
13305. | frustratedtyper (frustrated... | 80.53 | 97% | 2021-06-28 |
13306. | Rhys (rhosllop) | 80.53 | 97% | 2022-11-17 |
13307. | Erik (erikd234) | 80.53 | 97% | 2021-04-19 |
13308. | bunbun (typerbun) | 80.53 | 95% | 2017-01-12 |
13309. | Ella (itypefasterthanyou10) | 80.52 | 96% | 2020-11-10 |
13310. | nick chat : (giang_vn) | 80.52 | 96% | 2011-09-24 |
13311. | Patrick (pstarr) | 80.52 | 96% | 2015-12-01 |
13312. | Debojoti Das (debojoti_soumya) | 80.51 | 98% | 2021-09-28 |
13313. | tyler (nekoracer) | 80.51 | 97% | 2022-07-11 |
13314. | Sam (gates250) | 80.51 | 97% | 2023-12-13 |
13315. | Justin (jjallday13) | 80.51 | 90% | 2014-04-14 |
13316. | Neel (neel19) | 80.50 | 96% | 2020-07-14 |
13317. | vamsi (vamsivadrevu) | 80.50 | 97% | 2013-07-11 |
13318. | EraZorX (erazorx) | 80.50 | 99% | 2014-12-16 |
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Default (English) | 70,097 | 81.38 | June 9, 2010 |
Long Texts | 89 | 92.00 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |
Smoke Rise Prep | 0 | 0.00 | January 1, 1970 |