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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| 43597. | mohit (baby145252) | 43.81 | 93% | 2024-10-26 |
| 43598. | Quynh Truong (quynhtruong14... | 43.80 | 95.1% | 2024-10-30 |
| 43599. | Apurbo (tanvirmahfuz) | 43.80 | 95% | 2025-02-25 |
| 43600. | Manish (hi_son) | 43.80 | 92% | 2023-11-25 |
| 43601. | ViperSage (viper_saint) | 43.79 | 95% | 2024-07-22 |
| 43602. | Zhenming Gu (zhenming5) | 43.79 | 97% | 2024-05-14 |
| 43603. | TypeGod69 (type_god_69) | 43.78 | 94% | 2024-02-23 |
| 43604. | Darryle (dmarble1) | 43.78 | 94% | 2015-05-19 |
| 43605. | Cee (tinycee) | 43.76 | 93.1% | 2024-05-26 |
| 43606. | Rasz (badrul123) | 43.75 | 95% | 2024-06-19 |
| 43607. | J (evil_june) | 43.75 | — | 2011-01-03 |
| 43608. | Jitander (jitander) | 43.75 | 95% | 2021-12-30 |
| 43609. | Luke (blocked_like91) | 43.74 | 94% | 2024-05-27 |
| 43610. | blondie (_blondie) | 43.74 | 95.6% | 2024-02-16 |
| 43611. | nick (nic_von) | 43.73 | 94% | 2022-10-23 |
| 43612. | Martin (martin00) | 43.72 | 95% | 2024-02-29 |
| 43613. | Rezu (rezu) | 43.71 | 95% | 2025-04-17 |
| 43614. | Varun (varun1567) | 43.71 | 96% | 2025-03-07 |
| 43615. | Osama Saeed (ossama123) | 43.71 | 96% | 2024-04-01 |
| 43616. | Julio C. Merida Jr. (spican... | 43.70 | 96.1% | 2025-01-19 |
| 43617. | Shyanne (sbrown25) | 43.69 | 93% | 2024-04-16 |
| 43618. | Ziwi (ziwidiwi) | 43.69 | 95.3% | 2023-11-15 |
| 43619. | Morgan (burnsmor) | 43.69 | — | 2010-06-24 |
| 43620. | Lauren (lauren_anne) | 43.68 | 97% | 2024-08-13 |
| 43621. | sniffles (sniffles500) | 43.68 | 95% | 2024-10-11 |
| 43622. | A_Henry (a_henry) | 43.67 | 97% | 2025-01-24 |
| 43623. | Jeƒƒ (juggydog) | 43.67 | 89% | 2011-10-28 |
| 43624. | Koen (koen_lmao) | 43.66 | 95% | 2025-05-03 |
| 43625. | TØM (kircket) | 43.66 | 88% | 2013-07-08 |
| 43626. | Senussi (super_ahmed91) | 43.65 | 93% | 2025-01-23 |
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| Long Texts | 153 | 84.32 | December 30, 2016 |
| Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
| Smoke Rise Prep | 12 | 71.91 | January 1, 2024 |
| ##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |