No matter how you rearrange the deckchairs, the Titanic is still going to the bottom.
And we conservatives are riding third class.
No matter how you rearrange the deckchairs, the Titanic is still going to the bottom.
And we conservatives are riding third class.
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And it's the heat generated by the idea of global warming that will shear off the giant berg that will sink the ship.
"In 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy asked Hirsch to figure out how much oil was left in the world, how much the industrial economies were consuming, and at what point we’d actually hit the downward slope of petroleum production. With an array of mind-numbing charts and graphs, Hirsch showed how we are fast approaching the maximum oil production capacity worldwide — known as peak oil — and how after that, it’s all downhill. The good news, he said, was that by the year 2050 we’d probably be okay. By that, he meant that the industrial nations of the world would have transitioned into substitute energy sources. But as we sat there with the air conditioner set to replicate the Arctic tundra, Hirsch told us how between the year 2015 and 2050, the world would be one continuous explosion of economic violence, disruption, and trauma. This would be caused by the growing chasm between actual oil available and the amount needed to keep the industrialized economies humming at anything approximating their current capacities.
The ensuing economic pain would be on a collision course with any and all efforts to stave off global warming."
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I agree with you Bob. We are looking at a third class ride for the next few years. I don't however think it's because we've anywhere nearly peaked in oil production---as you mentioned on the Pajamas piece. It's a political disgrace that Congress and eco-environmentalists have tied up our abundannt domestic supplies from being extracted and produced and are demonizing big oil. Etc.
Nevertheless, four years of Obama short of a miracle, will not be fun and we better prepare ourselves for what's surely coming......
Perhaps because of the Shatner vid, I'm feeling a bit more optimistic this morning. You know America survived a civil war. We only read about it history books, but people starved, died, were wounded and hounded for what they believed in (both sides here) and yet we emerged stronger than ever. Today, I'm putting hope in the spirit of America's can do attitude. It may take 4 years of Obama or McCain, but we'll find it. Disclaimer: This feeling is only good for today.
want to clarify, I DO think we've reached the peak of cheap oil and gasoline however.....
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