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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AuBug who wrote (305)	4/11/2005 12:47:25 PM
From: AuBug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1183

The Long Emergency: What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? by JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER ... And then there is the issue of China, which, in 2004, became the world's second-greatest consumer of oil, surpassing Japan. China's surging industrial growth has made it increasingly dependent on the imports we are counting on. If China wanted to, it could easily walk into some of these places -- the Middle East, former Soviet republics in central Asia -- and extend its hegemony by force. Is America prepared to contest for this oil in an Asian land war with the Chinese army? I doubt it. Nor can the U.S. military occupy regions of the Eastern Hemisphere indefinitely, or hope to secure either the terrain or the oil infrastructure of one distant, unfriendly country after another. A likely scenario is that the U.S. could exhaust and bankrupt itself trying to do this, and be forced to withdraw back into our own hemisphere, having lost access to most of the world's remaining oil in the process. ... rollingstone.com Why fight a land war with China in Asia when we could just take Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela right here in own hemisphere? Surely bush has contingency plans on the table, after all "everything is on the table." I can't figure out who this author is. But it made me wonder if Peak Oil is creeping into the mainstream with articles like this getting published. I believe most people that hear about Peak Oil think we're alarmists instead of realists.