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Published online 29 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031027-3
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Calculations illustrate fossil-fuel crisis
Plant-to-oil equations point up unsustainable profligacy.
If you burned a litre of petrol on the way to work this morning, consider this: it took 23.5 tonnes of ancient, buried plants to produce.
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