Medicine depends on petro-products so it, and we, must learn to live with expensive oil.

<tr><td><p class='TableClas'></p><P class='TableClas'><DIV CLASS=rightDiv><script language="JavaScript">
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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>Clear thinking seems to happen in times of crisis, not plenty. Which is why, faced with the petrol price shocks of the 1970s, American doctors started asking themselves about the cost of modern medicine&#39;s dependence on petroleum products and fossil fuel energy.
</p><p class='TableClas'>The use of petrol in medicine is not new 

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