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Old 13-March-2008, 05:59 AM
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I'm afraid I don't really see how transporting food long distances can become super expensive. People have mentioned increasing oil prices, but ship and rail transport are extremely energy efficient compared to current road transport, so it would take extraordinary price increases to cause large reductions in the amount of food they ship, and neither rail nor shipping has to depend on oil. For that matter road transport doesn't need to rely on oil either.
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