Robert J. Chassell wrote: > > Currently, Brazil consumes about 5 Exajoules/year of oil. (The other > energy sources listed by the CIA are much smaller.) > The CIA is, as usual, wrong. Oil is an important part, its part is increasing, but it is not even close to 50%. The major energy source is hidroelectric.
> So, Brazil should be able both to feed itself and provide itself with > enough energy. > Yes - but that is the current situation. Energy consumption tends to increase.
To be precise, "energy consumption tends to increase _faster than population_" or "_average per capita_ energy consumption tends to increase." So the problem is that while food consumption ought to increase more or less at the same rate as population, the energy requirement increases much faster.
-- Ronn! :)
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