The International Energy Agency proposes 10 ways to reduce global oil demand as gas prices rise

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

How about the relatively high price of petrol being the motivation for people to innovate how they can be more frugal with its use?

All these Great Leader geniuses try to outwit structures that already efficiently incentivize people to conserve.

I could be wrong on how it all works, but from what I understand, global inequallity makes it hard for simple supply and demand prices to affect everyone equally. If oil and gas prices double, people in countries like the USA just complain more, whereas people in other countries stop driving vehicles that cultivate or transport food and everyone there starves to death, or civil unrest kicks into overdrive, or something along those lines.

[freebeard]

With wine you can choose the source location down to a specific valley in a specific country. Gas is more like hamburger.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Most of the wheat in my country is sourced either from Canada or Argentina, with its cost obviously pegged to the Dollar, yet white bread is a staple food. Sometimes it sounds quite dumb that other crops, which can be grown locally in different Brazilian regions, are not so widely used for baking. Besides eventually achieving a greater cost-effectiveness, there is also the fewer fuel consumption for the logistics.

[freebeard]

I buy Potato bread, while Winter Wheat volunteers in vacant lots around here.

[Piotrsko]

Different wheats for bread making? The heresy, I say. Apparently different grains make a significantly different loaf with noticeable flavors and textures that appear unappealing to the masses indoctrinated to wheat starch churned out by the mega ton

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Potato bread in Brazil is mostly available commercially as a ready-to-eat snack, with some filling, not in a way similar to what is known in Brazil as a "french loaf".

The so-called "French loaf" usually looks like this.



Potato starch as a wheat replacement is quite usual in Israel during Passover, as a way to circumvent the restrictions on certain grains which include barley, rye, oats and spelt. I have already eaten cakes made with potato starch instead of wheat flour, and it didn't really taste much different.


Buckwheat is not so easy to harvest with machinery, so it may justify being expensive and not so heavily used as a replacement for conventional wheat. Most of the Brazilian production of buckwheat is concentrated in Paraná state and exported to Japan and France.


Yam in Brazil is more appreciated in states of the Nordeste region, most noticeably in Pernambuco. It's also a traditional staple in some African countries. Suitability to some harsher environmental conditions in places where wheat is harder to cultivate should've been more valued in Brazil.


White beans flour is another one that is quite surprising to not have much popularity, as beans in general are often adviced as a good option for crop rotation after tobacco has been harvested.

[redpoint5]

I consider those carbs to be cousins with vegetables; the things food eat.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I guess by food you refer to beef. But why not enjoying some side dishes too? Or some chilli con carne...

[freebeard]

Cabbage for roughage.

[Isaac Zachary]

Meat in general uses more resources. If you eat the veggies instead of animals that eat the veggies then you need less land and less water to make your food.