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In article <afj67i0s95@drn.newsguy.com>, nospam@mybox.org says...
> In article <MPG.1786811b914e8377989e2e@shawnews.vn.shawcable.net>, tnr says...
> >
> >In article <afikiu02ma5@drn.newsguy.com>, nospam@mybox.org says...
> >>In article <MPG.1785a097ae734f04989e2a@shawnews.vn.shawcable.net>, tnr says...
> >> >
> >> >In article <1103_1025243790@shawnews>, couchfulodogs*@hotmail.com 
> >> >says...
> >> >> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:01:34 GMT, tnr <tnr@nospam.org> wrote:
> >> >> > In article <1103_1025223039@shawnews>, couchfulodogs*@hotmail.com 
> >> >> > says...
> >>>>> > During world war two some hemp farmers were not drafted as they were
> >>needed
> >> >>for rope production, war runs on
> >> >> > > rope.
> >> >> > > 
> >> >> > > 
> >> >> > Gee the current wars seem to run on explosives and bullets.
> >>>>And to get the bombs and bullets anywhere they were moved around with rope. In
> >> >>WW11 there were not as many synthetics, and hemp rope was
> >> >> valuable.
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> >I have no roblem believing that rope was important in 1940.
> >> 
> >> Good.   It shouldn't be much of a stretch then, to believe that rope is still
> >>just about as important.  We have lots of synthetics now, oil-based for the most
> >> part, which can substitute for hemp (which is renewable,) as long as there's
> >> access to oil (which is *not* renewable)...
> >
> >Really? Not renewable? Hmmm I wonder where that olive oil I just bought 
> >came from... 
> 
> Sorry... I did mean petroleum, and I thought it self-evident.   I defy you to
> find me many millions of barrels of olive oil per day and thus show me that your
> statement above isn't simply idiocy for the sake of argument.

Sorry, I had been counting on a bit of insight. Number of barrels is 
certainly not hard to increase to pretty much any level you want, 
however that's not relevant to the comment I made. I assumed that it was 
self-evident that volume has nothing to do with whether it is  renewable 
resource. As for the difference between vegetable oil and petroleum... 
how long do you think it will be before natural gas and petroleum can be 
produced from genetically modified plants? Not long I would say. I'd be 
willing to bet it will be long before we run out of the original stuff.