If everyone made an effort to eat 20% less beef, we'd be there already. And btw - the rest of the article is pretty bleak, in that if true - it will only mean WW3.

I will eat 20% less beef when they let more lamb into my local grocery, and stop putting brine in the pork.

Bagelox-99: I will eat 20% less beef when they let more lamb into my local grocery, and stop putting brine in the pork.

Demand it. Tell the manager you want it, and buy it often. Or shop elsewhere.

I always come to Fark for prognostications.

Having been to Dickinson, ND...they might be right.

Until the European debt crisis causes a market crash and causes a drop in demand (and therefore price) of oil, therefore making oil shale and fracking too expensive to be profitable. But that's just one aspect of the article, I suppose. And speculative. Wait, what was I contributing again?

"......we begin drilling in five minutes."

torch: Well the dollar will probably implode before that, so stock up on ammo.

I bet the Euro collapses first, which leaves the dollar as the default king of the mountain for at least another 20 years. European governments have to buy pension bonds somewhere!

Hey guys, look over there. Two happy queers are being happy. We need to stop this. Forget about the article! We gotta stop them queers.

"America is a genuine nation, forged by shared language and the ancestral chords of memory over two centuries, with institutions that ultimately work and a real central bank able to back-stop the system."

//thank you. I agree

The Gordie Howe Hat Trick: I always come to Fark for prognostications.

Having been to Dickinson, ND...they might be right.

We're getting our energy from Pedobearistan now?

WelldeadLink: So next year we begin converting to woodburning steam cars, and cut down all the forests?

/we can't eat less beef because we can't grow crops on most pasture land.
//make that cowburning steam cars.

Thank you!!! Have you ever seen Texas cow land? Good luck farming that. There is 3 inches of topsoil over lot's of limestone. You grow shrub trees or you raise animals.

BigNumber12: Do their keyboards not have a '%' key?



It looks like they typically do. But it may be part of the Telegraph's Manual of Style to write out percent rather than use the symbol.

I'd like to see all UK rags offline. OK, maybe not "The Sun, Page 3", but other than that....

ABC has been doing a number of reports on Made in America (new window) that shows that buying American products, on average, costs no more then foreign goods. What I'd love to see is a law where buying American goods is mandatory if you receive federal or state money. If just all our state universities used American made goods we'd be on the road to self-sufficiency once again.

're-inshoring'?

When did they inshore the first time - except in the dribs and drabs they've always done it?

BigNumber12: Umokay: "America is a genuine nation, forged by shared language and the ancestral chords of memory over two centuries, with institutions that ultimately work and a real central bank able to back-stop the system."


Not for long. We're much more accommodating these days.

I blame deaf/mutes.

/tiny fists

"Self-sufficiency" is a lie in the face of an exponentially-growing world population. Overpopulation is a ticking time bomb. The shiat will soon hit the fan, one way or another.

Arthur Jumbles: ABC has been doing a number of reports on Made in America (new window) that shows that buying American products, on average, costs no more then foreign goods. What I'd love to see is a law where buying American goods is mandatory if you receive federal or state money. If just all our state universities used American made goods we'd be on the road to self-sufficiency once again.

You're a complete retard, huh?

Tell me how I am to buy exotic fruits in the middle of winter with WIC.

I love the derpy comments people posted there.

Brontes: WelldeadLink: So next year we begin converting to woodburning steam cars, and cut down all the forests?

/we can't eat less beef because we can't grow crops on most pasture land.
//make that cowburning steam cars.

Thank you!!! Have you ever seen Texas cow land? Good luck farming that. There is 3 inches of topsoil over lot's of limestone. You grow shrub trees or you raise animals.

The vast majority of beef does not come from the ranches of west Texas but from the high density feedlot where the cattle is fed corn. The Corn comes from the Corn Belt of Iowa, Illinois and surrounding areas. Grass fed beef is a rarity.

Ah, so America has finally mastered fusion power, matter-energy conversion, and nano-assembly?

I knew you could do it!

/snark aside, um, if you could do it sooner than later 'Merica, that'd be appreciated
//sincerely, Earth

Not if our leadership has anything to do with it.

Since I just lost my job to someone in India, I'm getting a kick out of this story.

RailProf: Brontes: WelldeadLink: So next year we begin converting to woodburning steam cars, and cut down all the forests?

/we can't eat less beef because we can't grow crops on most pasture land.
//make that cowburning steam cars.

Thank you!!! Have you ever seen Texas cow land? Good luck farming that. There is 3 inches of topsoil over lot's of limestone. You grow shrub trees or you raise animals.

The vast majority of beef does not come from the ranches of west Texas but from the high density feedlot where the cattle is fed corn. The Corn comes from the Corn Belt of Iowa, Illinois and surrounding areas. Grass fed beef is a rarity.

Yeah, but that isn't my point. If you have land in Texas west of the Colorado river, you can grow beef on it or mesquite/cedar trees.

I'm moving to Williston, ND in the Spring. Guaranteed 40hr/week + 44hr/week of overtime, starting at 35/hr. With 3.5% unemployment and a state budget surplus of 1Bil plus.

/csb

True, the U.S. has had increasing oil production from shale, but will it be enough to offset the depletion of its more traditional crude oil sources? Nope.
Bottom line: global oil production entered a plateau a few years ago and has been flat. Peak oil isn't something we need to deal with in 2030 like some deniers say. It's something that's impacting us now, in 2011.

BigNumber12: Do their keyboards not have a '%' key?

Shift-5. Look into it Telegraph.

Cubansaltyballs: Just remember, when this happens our rise means China will collapse. It will mean WWIII.... but we'll handle it, just like the first two. China knows this, that's why they are trying so hard to get their hands on our military technology.

It doesn't have to be WW3, and if it comes to that it will likely be nuclear. It is absolutely inconceivable that the United States would actually lose the conflict, except in the sense that everyone would lose. If you think our leaders are too humane to push the button you haven't been paying attention, and furthermore at least 51% of the American public could be induced to approve of such a move.

"World power swings back to America"

Um... to where had it swung? Last anybody checked America still dominated the economy, military and every cultural aspect of every nation on the planet.