NO FUEL.

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(20 September 2013, 09:00)bigpaul Wrote: we can only feed 25% of the UK population from the land mass available in this country, this includes allotments, parks and the like. with no petro chemicals, fertiliser etc this would drop even further as a lot of AGRIBUSINESSES rely on MONO cropping, this needs huge amounts of chemicals to make the crop grow, post collapse this would cease to be available and this land would become INFERTILE to the old fashioned farming methods.

Good point BP, it could take many years for the land to regain its natural fertility. That's cost of intensive farming that I hadn't considered.

Even simple stuff like cows shit in fields has changed. Have you noticed the big reduction in the number of field mushrooms that you find? that's down to the systemic use of antibiotics in cattle feed.

Ughhh!