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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| 27350. | Shawn Paul (ample) | 69.23 | 97.7% | 2024-01-08 |
| 27351. | Jeffrey (randomhour) | 69.23 | 95% | 2014-12-22 |
| 27352. | Jamethy (jamethy) | 69.23 | — | 2011-03-17 |
| 27353. | mezo (themezo) | 69.22 | 96% | 2025-04-16 |
| 27354. | BlackSpade (blackspade934) | 69.22 | 98.1% | 2025-01-31 |
| 27355. | Oliwer (financialojay) | 69.22 | 96% | 2025-01-18 |
| 27356. | fisaty1024 (umang143) | 69.22 | 96.3% | 2024-09-11 |
| 27357. | swing (heccbean) | 69.22 | 97% | 2024-06-11 |
| 27358. | Lloyd (llgraves) | 69.22 | 98% | 2022-06-24 |
| 27359. | Michael (aeonlight) | 69.22 | 90% | 2012-11-19 |
| 27360. | Pš„šš«š±š¬šŖ-š... | 69.21 | 95% | 2024-05-02 |
| 27361. | nhubm (a_blover108) | 69.21 | 97.3% | 2025-05-28 |
| 27362. | Paull (paulh_112904) | 69.21 | 96% | 2022-04-01 |
| 27363. | tstats[imrola] (imrola) | 69.21 | 98% | 2025-09-24 |
| 27364. | Vincent (effaz) | 69.21 | 92% | 2015-03-15 |
| 27365. | puppy0cam (puppy0cam) | 69.21 | 97% | 2021-01-29 |
| 27366. | XIUYING (etwahls) | 69.20 | 95.4% | 2024-08-24 |
| 27367. | Ishan (aquaticos) | 69.20 | 97.4% | 2024-05-25 |
| 27368. | Amarpreet (ampit) | 69.20 | 90% | 2011-09-10 |
| 27369. | Yaaseen (lauski999) | 69.20 | 95% | 2024-08-07 |
| 27370. | shane (shanebk) | 69.20 | 96% | 2022-08-09 |
| 27371. | Milen JK (milen_jk_17) | 69.20 | 98% | 2025-05-29 |
| 27372. | Henr (bantoe) | 69.20 | 96% | 2023-02-11 |
| 27373. | not (not_vidhu) | 69.20 | 96% | 2022-06-07 |
| 27374. | Ram (ramans) | 69.20 | 91% | 2014-07-11 |
| 27375. | kevin (hyzing) | 69.20 | 86% | 2013-11-13 |
| 27376. | Ein (einkokelhahn) | 69.20 | 95% | 2018-10-11 |
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| Default (English) | 101,604 | 78.55 | June 9, 2010 |
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| ##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |