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To: jackjc who wrote (61663)	10/15/2008 4:42:09 PM
From: Valuepro	Respond to of 78414

While they might be biased in this for their own political reasons, they may be near the truth. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that at current growth rates, China alone in 20 years will be consuming all raw materials on earth with nothing left over for anyone else. Yes, something has to give. At some point there will have to be rationing of resources on a global scale.

To: jackjc who wrote (61663)	10/15/2008 4:58:38 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78414

Inconvenient panic indeedie. Metal depletion continues at arithmetic rate if I am not mistaken. We can only mine so much at a certain rate. Only that stuff can get used. There could be a gap due to demand. Except that demand may increase by a ~slightly compounded rate. Compounded by population growth and true economic and infrastructure growth in Asia. This pop growth factor is of course factored into economic growth, or should be. To get quasi theoretical about what the factors are, I supposed we could draw curves of pop growth and compound that with the necessary rate of infrastructure building to make China into a big Switzerland without the Cuckoo clocks. I think I went thru that at one point on this thread and calculated we would need to find an Andacolla ever 3 years to keep up. If we can hang on thru this economic storm and/or find avenues of taking advantage of the needed metal production that must ensue -- then we is all filthy stinkin' rich.. I hate like hell leaving it all to Chinese private production. That has to suck. We are such market bound fools when it comes to business. All paper empires and no production. It is apparent that North America is no longer a bunch or doers. They like watching more than doing these days. Perhaps invasion of Ecuador will be necessary to get the copper supply up to standard. We may even have to start the Pebble up. EC<:-}