The true value of oil

Kirstin Kimball runs an amazing farm  in the US, where they use draught horses to do the work of ploughing, harvesting etc. Have a look at her blog to see how this farm feeds her community. 

Kirsten and her partner are considering reducing their 'horse power' for more conventional fossil fuel power.

They are struggling with the costs of employing staff to manage the amazingly beautiful animal work force amongst other pressures.

They quote Bill McKibben's statistic that one barrel of oil contains the same amount of energy as TEN years of manual labour.One barell costs approx $100 and 10 years labour $250K - $1 million. 

As peak oil approaches the restructuring means lots of shocks and adjustments are to be expected.

Machine at work