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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (26)	1/26/2005 9:59:38 AM
From: kryptonic6	of 1183

Raymond, The point I try to stress is that the time for our government to begin pushing for serious alternatives to oil was 30 years ago. However, as Jimmy Carter learned, promoting conservation is political suicide, which is why we just witnessed an election year without a single mention of peak oil. Nuclear currently only accounts for 8% of our total energy supply, and it is messy: look what just happened Monday in my home state: detnow.com Even Cheney stated back in 2001 that we would need "...an additional 1,300 to 1,900 new power plants over the next 20 years [1 new plant per week] to meet demand." archives.cnn.com Even if aliens came and delivered a free energy source tonight, it would take decades to retrofit our entire infrastructure to operate on any alternative energy source, and it would meet astronomical social and political resistance at every step of the way. Given our collective unwillingness (dating back decades) to confront this issue head on, I feel the path we've chosen (go to war to get oil) is inevitable and irreversible. You're not going to convince anyone, regardless of political persuasion, to give up their car or drastically reduce their standard of living. Thus, when food production decreases as oil supplies wane (oil production=food production), hungry American people will want our government to get that oil by any means necessary. In the mean time, most Americans are happily distracted and soothed by the mindless reality TV and PR conditioning that the corporate media peddles to them. Jesse

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