Yea, and Ohio (USA) state board of education requires local schools 
to move in the school campus (all grades on one site usually in separate 
buildings for elementary, middle and high schools) which requires nearly 
all students to be bussed as opposed to neighborhood schools with 
students walking. And then there is no money for the bussing and parents 
need to provide transportation with traffic jams. Was in Atlanta, Ga. 
over the weekend, local papers had front page article about cities 
providing extra traffic road lanes for jams at schools. :(

James Newtons Massmind wrote:
>>> Much
>>> more than half of all imported oil is used to provide fertilizer, 
>>> pesticides, transport, cooling, packaging and distribution of food.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Cite your source, please.
>>
>>     
>
> Harpers magazine... Some months ago. Google finds:
> http://www.energybulletin.net/5045.html
>
> http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915 "The Oil We Eat: Following
> the food chain back to Iraq"
>
> http://www.blog.thesietch.org/2006/03/28/oil-we-eat/
>
> The government web site appears to contradict me... Either my source was
> exaggerating (possible) or Monsanto, et all, have some influence in the
> government. Nah... That's crazy talk.
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=monsanto+executives+EPA+OR+FDA
> http://members.aye.net/~hippie/monsanto.htm
>
> http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/oil_marke
> t_basics/dem_image_us_cons_prod.htm is a good example of a graph that could
> be misleading. Stack the "Other" (could it be fertilizer and pesticides?) on
> top of "Distallite" (Diesel fuels used to transport food) and you are higher
> than "Motor Gasoline" Then consider the Motor Gasoline used to go pickup
> food at the store rather than walking into your back yard like they do at
> http://www.pathtofreedom.com
>
> Please allow me to change tack here... Even if I'm wrong about the
> percentage of oil used in food production, and oil is actually used almost
> entirely in transportation instead, planting a garden is STILL something we
> CAN do to help. Most of us MUST commute to feed (grin) our families so
> cutting out the car is a no-go (grin again). 
>
> But growing some food at home is something we CAN and SHOULD do. More
> plants, more O2 less CO2, less trips to the store (we have about one meal a
> week entirely from the back yard), less plastic packaging, less storage of
> food at the store, less fuel used to transport food to the store, less
> pesticide and fertilizer (of whatever sort) transported to the farm AND...
> Less money required to purchase the food in the first place.
>
> Not to mention how much better real eggs, herbs, spices, spinach, saturn
> peaches and many others taste compared to the "plastic" crap you get at the
> store.
>
>   
>>> How about a social web site that shows an overhead picture of your 
>>> garden and invites people to play a "game" of nuking your weeds, 
>>> complete with CGI explosions of the targets. The aggregate result, 
>>> less protected areas where you know there are plants, can 
>>>       
>> direct the robot to weed the area.
>>
>> Who needs games when there are herbicides and GMOs?  Monsanto 
>> gave farmers have round-up ready crops, so now you just need 
>> round-up ready 
>> vegis.  Spray it all but only the weeds die!  Right, James?    :)
>>     
>
> ARRRGGGHHH!! Gag, choke.... Your just pulling my chain right? Please just
> Google for "farmer percy" and I'll bite my tongue otherwise...
>
> http://www.percyschmeiser.com/ Follow the cycle: Farm must buy Monsanto
> seeds and pesticide, farm makes less money, farm applies for federal
> bailout, your tax dollars went via farm to Monsanto. Perfect example of
> hidden corporate welfare.
>
> ---
> James.
>  
>
>   
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