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Originally Posted by headquarters
I mean - the amount of fuel needed to run just a platoon of APCs is staggering if you convert it into square feet of tilled land or hours of manpower needed to produce the raw material for said fuel .Not to mention that that would tie up resources for food production as well.
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This is one reason why the survivors in Nevada are completely maxxed out supporting a relatively small mobile army. Alfalfa, which was grown extensively before the war, is a superb biofuel source as well as being good for crop rotation schemes. Even so, the surplus manpower of the 220,000 survivors is completely consumed by growing fuel for the warlord and fabricating spare parts. This is also one of the reasons why the USCG forces in Maine and New Hampshire appear to have done so little to curb the UBF. It takes a LOT of sunflowers to create enough oil to fill the tank of a Coast Guard cutter.
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