Oil, gas and food

This post is leading me, not the other way around.

January 29, 2010
What about Haitian oil and gas?
...At the high end of the estimate the holdings could be 941 million barrels of oil and 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas...


Posted on Tuesday, 01.26.10
Haiti earthquake may have exposed gas, aiding economy
...Abraham Lincoln's consul to the Dominican Republic reported oil seeps there in 1862. Neither nation produces oil or gas. As much as 1 trillion cubic feet of gas may be trapped in a border formation near the earthquake fault, Pierce said....


I dunno how much natural gas we use, but that's around 44 days usage for the US and around 11 days world usage of oil.

As I passed by my bookshelf I picked up Paul Roberts' The End of Oil © 2004, some of which can be read here and briefly thumbed through it. Here is a 12 minute edited clip of the author speaking Oil and the Global Economy on YouTube.

Not sure how old these clips are.

I found out that Roberts had another book published called The End of Food.

Here he speaks about the food system. Part II is here .

I know the titles of his books sound incredibly gloomy, but the author is not gloomy, but rather optimistic that there is time to change things before they hit the crisis stage as long as the changes begin rather quickly in this country at least.