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On 5/24/2015 3:38 PM, taxed and spent wrote:
> "Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
> ...
>> wrote in
>> :
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>>>>> I love almonds. I am not sure why anyone would demonise
>>>>> them?
>>>>
>>>> When it takes 20 gallons of water to grow one and you are in
>>>> the middle (or beginning) of an epic droiught it makes for an
>>>> easy target.
>>>
>>> It takes one gallon of water to grow an almond, but 3.3
>>> gallons of water to grow a tomato. Almonds sell at a premium
>>> compared to tomatoes.
>>
>> That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot grow a
>> single almond, you have to grow a tree which will produce many
>> almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds per tree if my
>> experience in Andalucia is similar), each if them requiring a
>> "gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of water. You can however
>> grow a few tomatoes instead of a hundred.
>
>
> WAY more than 100 almonds per tree.
>
>
But regardless it still works out to roughly a gallon per nut.