What some people in Wyoming already know...

“The current business model and economic efficiency is based on the consumption of fossil fuel. They can ship stuff cheap, so they can grow it in Ecuador, or Mexico really inexpensively, throw it on a plane, fly it to California, throw it on an 18-wheeler, drive it across the continental United States, and dump it in Kansas City because gas is cheap. Will that business model persist in the long term? No; but will it persist for the next 15 years? Yeah, probably.”  -- Nate Storey, of Bright Agrotech

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