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"HeyBub" wrote:

What's magical or important about "50 miles"?

This "buy local" business - whether to promote the local economy or, as in
your case, minimize earth-destroying pollution - will, when taken to its
logical extreme, limit you to buying from your next door neighbor!

which would mean everyone would be self-sufficient, which is a terrific result



Obviously, there's a distance line somewhere.