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>>57205502
you can't farm nearly as much area with just animal power. But I don't think you get it at all; oil isn't just "thing that makes cars go" its the feedstock for a couple dozen chemicals that are in turn feedstocks for fifty thousand things. Everything man-made you have ever heard of, touched, smelt, felt, coveted, thrown away, or walked by had oil involved in multiple steps of production, leaving aside transportation entirely.