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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2707
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 11:18 am: | 
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http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/03/worse_than_a_fo.php |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2711
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 4:39 pm: |
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Peak oil? |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:18 pm: |
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"Peak Oil is foreseeable.
"The consequences are also foreseeable and are likely to be ruinous.
"The Bush administration has been repeatedly warned.
"Actions could be taken to reduce the impact, but the longer those actions are delayed, the worse the impact will be.
"The administration, rather than taking steps to mitigate these looming catastrophic impacts, has instead done things that can only worsen them.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4614
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:21 pm: |
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Maybe the impact on the rest of us will be worse in the long run, but the short-term profits for oil company insiders are apparently too good to pass up. The people raking in the big bucks now are aware that in 50-100 years they won't be around to share the pain, so they're content to live large right now. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2714
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:41 pm: |
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Setting aside politics, is this really gonna happen? It sounds like we could be back in the dust bowl era. |
3ringale
Citizen
Username: Threeringale
Post Number: 115
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:56 pm: |
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themp,
If the Peak Oil people are right, suburban living (not to mention urban) is going to get really interesting. I don't know enough economics or geology to be sure, but this guy has an interesting take:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone18.html
Cheers |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1835
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 8:01 pm: |
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If this happens, some of you might want to join me around the fireplace or the wood stove in our place in Vermont. At least we'll be able to cut our own wood.
For food, along with our vegetable patch, there are deer and pheasant afoot in the woods. |
Gregor Samsa
Citizen
Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 461
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 8:19 pm: |
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People have been saying we're going to run out of oil for years now. This is not new. You can blame Bush for tons of stuff these days, but similar to the way every administration since Carter ignored warnings about flooding in NOLA, probably not this.
Innis, I have a buddy who lives totally off the grid northeast of Burke. When the sh*t hits the fan, that's where you (won't) find me! |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4616
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:49 pm: |
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Does the fact that people have been saying it for years make it in any way less true? People have been saying for years that the sun rises in the east, too.
Nobody's blaming Bush for the fact that Peak Oil will happen, we're blaming him for ignoring it. |
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