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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: Mahatmabenfoo who wrote (702)	6/6/2005 2:59:23 AM
From: kryptonic6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1183

You are starting to sound like me Charles. I agree 100% with proposal 1, and 3-6. SUVs are the not the problem - a family with 2 honda civics is using as much gas as a family with 1 SUV. Instituting a substantial gas tax would eliminate the need to ban SUV's. Of course, fossil fueled transportation is still doomed in the not-so-long term. I actually proposed provision 4 in an essay and got an A. BTW, the last figure I saw for the cost of the Iraq war was roughly 1 billion dollars per week - an astronomical sum of money. Regarding provision 5: We have enough evidence now to put Cheney and Bush in chains on suspicion pending a fair trial. The public arrest of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Meyers and Rove on 3,000 counts of first degree murder is about the only event I can imagine that would wake this country up to the crisis we're in. A lack of evidence has never been the problem. If Cheney interrupted all prime-time news programming to announce that he deliberately facilitated the 9/11 attacks, half the country would not even believe him and would think he had gone crazy. Americans NEED to believe the lie, or else their whole world doesn't make sense any more. That's why they watched in silence as their own government covered up their president's murder. It's easy to believe that some crazy little grunt (or 19 arabs) did it than that their whole democracy is corrupt and rotten to the core. Plus, discovering and sounding the alarm about horrific truths does not confer a fitness advantage most of the time - it gets you scorned, ridiculed, and sometimes hurt. So why do the right thing if its going to cost you (and your family) everything? That's my schedule for day one. Maybe on day two On day two you would be assassinated. Remember Charles, there are two sides to the problem: the oil problem, and the human problem. You have a very solid grasp on the oil problem. The human problem is much more difficult... This will sound like genetic determinism but the largest factor in all these politicians not getting it is that they're old. Their brains have been essentially hard-wired for decades. Grasping these concepts takes months upon months of reading and critical thought. Think of how much time you have already spent researching these issues, and you still repeat "THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE". Now, try imagining you're an average joe and not very prone to critical thought/reading. When informed of Peak Oil you would most likely react the same way ("this doesn't make any sense!") and, not being able to consolidate it with your current world view, you would ignore it completely. We're not going to see this problem acknowledged until the situation becomes too dire to ignore. We haven't reached that point, and until we do, we'll continue to be regarded as loony tin-foil-hat wearing freaks. So there's no reason to feel bad. Jesse