[Peakoil] Carbon price and Peak Oil

[Ruth Cully]

In his Canberra talk last year, Professor Kjell Aleklett said that US agriculture used 7 kilojoules of oil energy (or fossil fuel energy) for every kilojoule of food produced. Can anyone confirm this data?

At a recent Australian Academy of Science symposium I quoted these figures to one of the speakers (Dr Tony Fischer) in a question about the impact of peak oil on our agriculture (which he had not mentioned at all in his outlook assessment). Fischer flatly asserted that my figures "must be wrong". If so, I'm happy to accept correction, but Aleklett seemed to be more clued up than this guy. 

Can anyone help?

Thanks
 

Ruth



> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:46:37 +1000
> From: alex-po at trevbus.org
> To: peakoil at act-peakoil.org
> Subject: [Peakoil] Carbon price and Peak Oil
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> Interesting
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> http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2718670.html
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> If the policy-makers don't have Peak Oil in mind then a carbon tax won't
> help reduce oil dependence that much, for example, oil is more energy
> dense than coal, so burning oil to make electricity is made more
> economical by a carbon tax?
> 
> 
> Alex
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