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LoganCale on July 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce

I know people who are fully on solar/wind power and grow their own food.

blueprint on July 1, 2013 [–]

Solar/wind account for a fraction of US energy usage, and such people are unfortunately the extreme exception.

It's almost impossible for a human alive today to truthfully live free from oil - even if they are exceptional. How much harder would it be for an ordinary person who actually lives in US society?

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