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Old 02-15-2013, 03:30 PM
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Also keep in mind that per HW the last time that gas and fuel was part of agricultural production in the US was the spring planting of 1999.

I,.e page 9 "It would be the last one in which gasoline and diesel fuel were major factors for many years"

That implies that agricultural production in the US and distribution of food would be almost all done manually or with horse or ox power from spring 1999on for probably a decade or more.
Not necessarily. If military vehicles could be converted to run on alcohol or other alternative fuels, so could tractors and combines and the like. Refute this assertion and you pretty much deep six the whole game world.
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