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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: the navigator who wrote (7016)	2/4/2008 4:55:09 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 24255

Try the doc..then she will get it...TOD comment today... ianSF on February 4, 2008 - 2:19pm \| Permalink \| Subthread \| Comments top Netflix was kind enough to deliver A Crude Awakening this Saturday, thanks to my girlfriend asking me a few weeks back to "put some interesting stuff in my movie queue". I had mentioned it was on the way and I did actually get a commitment to watch it with me. It was pretty easy when I said I'd also throw something on the bbq and cook dinner. She kind of "gets" peak oil in a very basic way, but until she watched the movie, she never had any idea of how interconnected oil is in our society. Over the last year as I got rid of my 4x4 and bought a high mileage diesel VW and made other changes, she's realized this isn't a "fad" and that I may be on to something here. One of the big turning points in the discussion was when milk went from $4.39/2 gal to $6.50/2 gal at Safeway. As a single mom for quite some time, she was in tune to the prices for staples. We have a friend with cows and I mentioned he's not getting paid any more for milk, and the cows aren't charging any more then they used to. Higher oil meant higher transport and processing costs for everything. Saturday night she sat with rapt attention for the ENTIRE movie and "got it". It was like a light bulb turned on, to borrow a bad analogy. Now she "gets" why I'm looking into biodiesel, why I read the Oil Drum, why i recommended a smaller car instead of a big sedan, why I'd rather go kayaking on the coast than jet off to Vegas for a weekend. (Hey SCT, come join me sometime if you're in the SF Bay area!) She even invited her kids (17 & 18) and her daughter's boyfriend, 19 (who until recently said there was NO SUCH THING as a DIESEL CAR) over Sunday to watch A Crude Awakening with us again. She thought it was that important. None of us cared that much about the Superbowl anyway, and the kids like my cooking. I don't think the kids got as much out of it as their mom, but they did find it interesting and asked some intelligent questions which was more than I expected. Browsing book sales for the post-oil library this past week yielded some interesting stuff: Minor Surgery (1909) 750pp, 450 pictures $8 and since man/woman can't live on prep books alone: giant 18" steel wok at goodwill for $2 4 huge volumes of sci-fi short stories $2/ea Sierra Club Omnibus of Mountaineering Fiction $1