> energy was used making the pie can only be recovered via the sewage
> plant.
Nah; use a small Stirling engine to capture heat released by the pie as it
cools from the oven.
Regenerative baking could be a great energy saver.
> It is said by some that Russ Allbery once wrote:
>
>> Er, gasoline is getting up to *two* dollars a gallon; gas hasn't been a
>> dollar a gallon since I was a little kid.
>
> Either I'm older than I thought, or you're younger.
> The US city average price for gasoline was under a dollar in
> 1986.
Heck, I bought gasoline for under $1/gallon at least twice in and after
1996.