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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 19:29:06 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 07/01/2025 19:06, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 11:09:08 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> Cheap gasoline and diesel paved the way for massive transport
>>> expansion and globalisation. Plus  aircraft and the rise of suburban
>>> living.
>> 
>> I forget the two cities, perhaps London and Manchester, but in
>> Schumacher's 'Small is Beautiful' he points out the absurdity of two
>> lorries passing each other, one carrying biscuits from Manchester to
>> London, the other carrying biscuits from London to Manchester.  The
>> cities were 100 miles apart.
>> 
> Pretty sure Manchester is further than that. (It is in fact 211 miles)
> And London makes nothing except money these days.

/i read it a long time ago, do not have the book, and it doesn't appear to 
be on the internet. Pick any two cities; the principle is the same. 

A US example is loading carpet in LA and delivering it to Dalton GA, 2,169 
miles. There are carpet mills in Dalton, so you load carpet and head back 
to Las Vegas or LA. It all looked like carpet to me.

A more involved example is loading cotton in Mississippi and taking it to 
Long Beach in California where it is shipped to Asia only to eventually 
return as cheap flannel shirts. It's all based on cheap transportation.