We are running out of liquid fuels and water leaving the future much dryer.

Planet Earth will always have the same amount of water it has always had it is just being polluted to the point of making drinking water hazardous to our health. This is also true for ocean waters which have had a huge number of radioactive materials, toxic waste and garbage dumped into them.

Then there are the greed mongers like T. Boone Pickens and water investment funds who are buying up water rights in order to profit from the need people have for water. Water “is the next oil,” according to Pickens which demonstrates his desire to profit greatly from it the same way he profited from oil. People need to wake up in U.S. and refuse any single person or investment fund to hold water rights to the point being able to deprive anyone of their need for water.

If people don’t stop the wholesaling of their right to have access to clean water they will in the not too distant future pay extravagant amounts for it. Currently  a cup of specialty coffee costs over $50 a gallon while gasoline costs around $3.50 a gallon. The same is true for bottled water which costs around $7 or more per gallon. Yet stupid people in the U.S. complain about the price of gasoline and not about the price of bottled water or coffee. This country is doomed because people can’t think for themselves.

Onto liquid fuels.

The U.S. produced roughly 13 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011 on 67 million acres.  In the U.S. we had roughly 282.1 million total acres under cultivation. At the same time we used over 150 billion gallons of gasoline. If we were to replace gasoline with ethanol we would have to cultivate more than 840 million acres of land and if all farm equipment were to use a plant or bio based liquid fuel we would be looking at nearly 1000 million acres of land devoted for the production of liquid fuels for the automobile and farm equipment.
(data namely from U.S Farm Bureau, EPA & Wikipedia websites)

You might think that accounts for all the liquid fuel we need, not so. The above is related to gasoline only. Now we have to account for buses, planes, trains other vehicles and equipment that use diesel or diesel like fuel. To grow enough seed oil to replace this liquid fuel would require several hundred acres of land more. All this just to keep people in their cars, jetting around the globe and industrial equipment running.

So where will our food come from? How will anyone grow enough crops for fuel and for food if the U.S. can’t?

We will not grow our way out of this problem even if every car, bus, train, plane and liquid fuel guzzling vehicle and piece of equipment were to be made as efficient as  possible. Efficiency might cut liquid fuel consumption by 30%, maybe 40% but we still won’t be able to grow enough to supply our liquid fuel needs and grow food at the same time. I don’t care what anyone says it is just is not possible.

So as long as people continue down the path of more of the sameness more we are going to doom ourselves.