by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

The only way that we can continue to have cheap food is if we have cheap energy.  We use energy to grow our food, to harvest our food, to produce our food and to package our food.  And transporting all of that food from the farm to the factory and then to the stores takes lots of energy.  Of course it isn’t just our food supply that depends upon cheap energy.  Ultimately, our entire way of life is predicated on a cheap energy paradigm.  If you take cheap energy away, everything changes.