"taxed and spent" > wrote in
:

>> 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.

In 1967 in Andalucia, a non-commercial tree would not have produced
as much...but I was merely showing how ludricous the comparison
was.

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