Demand for products made from metals is exceeding production capacity
declining and uncertain supply with exploding demand
result is a rapid increase in price, with ripple effects throughout the rest of our society, which is built almost entirely out of cheap oil
if we are made of corn, corn is made of fossil fuels
When gas prices started going up, so did the price of corn.
spot shortages appear to be caused by political action, such as export controls, and through waste
There is lots of water in America, it is just grossly mis-allocated and wasted.
markets are pushing up natural gas in reaction to higher oil prices
we still have what Bill Richardson called "a superpower with a third-world electricity grid."
the demand is only going to get higher
the world is losing soil 10 to 20 times faster than it is replenishing it
Till it and plant a monoculture like corn on it and that soil gets depleted rapidly
clipped from: planetgreen.discovery.com 
