>> With Bush we got 9/11 and the response.
>
> We are entering the post crude phase of our existence and we will see
> much more turmoil in the near future than just the few killings that
> have come our of our current war effort.
>
> You see, we will be at war over crude until the last buckets have been
> sucked from the earth...so get used to it.
>
> As we would leave the Middle East...China or Russia would step in.
>
> See:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Resource-Wars-Landscape-Conflict-Introduction/d...
>
> China has triple our pop and a fraction of our oil reserves within its
> borders.
>
> So either we play bodyguard to the Middle East or China or Russia
> will.
>
> You like typing on the 'puter don't you?
>
> Well, without the crude to make the diesel to power the train that
> brings the coal to the power plant you would not be typing on the
> 'puter.
>
> But that is not all.
>
> We are entering an era of peak natural gas, peak water, peak food,
> peak uranium. So many areas of new conflict are in our future.
>
> Carving up a barrel of crude oil, we can see that barrel supplies many
> of our necessities of life.
>
> Out of each barrel of crude we make the following products:
>
> 42%% of each barrel of crude is used for Gasoline
>
> 21%% Fuel oil - Diesel
>
> 8%% Â Jet Fuel and Kerosene
>
> 8%% Petrochemicals
>
> Such as....
>
> Solvents Bearing Grease Vaseline Ink Floor Wax Ball-point Pens
> Football Cleats Upholstery Sweaters Boats Insecticides Bicycle Tires
> Sports Car Bodies Nail Polish Fishing lures Dresses Tires Golf Bags
> Perfumes Cassettes Dishwasher Tool Boxes Shoe Polish Motorcycle Helmet
> Caulking Petroleum Jelly Transparent Tape CD Player Faucet Washers
> Antiseptics Clothesline Curtains Food Preservatives Basketballs Soap
> Vitamin Capsules Antihistamines Purses Shoes Dashboards Cortisone
> Deodorant Footballs Putty Dyes Panty Hose Refrigerant Percolators Life
> Jackets Rubbing Alcohol Linings Skis TV Cabinets Shag Rugs
> Electrician's Tape Tool Racks Car Battery Cases Epoxy Paint Mops
> Slacks Insect Repellent Oil Filters Umbrellas Yarn Fertilizers Hair
> Coloring Roofing Toilet Seats Fishing Rods Lipstick Denture Adhesive
> Linoleum Ice Cube Trays Synthetic Rubber Speakers Plastic Wood
> Electric Blankets Glycerin Tennis Rackets Rubber Cement Fishing Boots
> Dice Nylon Rope Candles Trash Bags House Paint Water Pipes Hand Lotion
> Roller Skates Surf Boards Shampoo Wheels Paint Rollers Shower Curtains
> Guitar Strings Luggage Aspirin Safety Glasses Antifreeze Football
> Helmets Awnings Eyeglasses Clothes Toothbrushes Ice Chests Footballs
> Combs CD's Paint Brushes Detergents Vaporizers Balloons Sun Glasses
> Tents Heart Valves Crayons Parachutes Telephones Enamel Pillows Dishes
> Cameras Anesthetics Artificial Turf Artificial limbs Bandages Dentures
> Model Cars Folding Doors Hair Curlers Cold cream Movie film Soft
> Contact lenses Drinking Cups Fan Belts Car Enamel Shaving Cream
> Ammonia Refrigerators Golf Balls Toothpaste
>
> 6%% Propane
>
> 4%% Heating Oil
>
> 3%% Asphalt and Road oil
>
> 2%% Petroleum coke
>
> 1%% Lubricants
>
> All these products will be history someday.
>
> Have you ever thought about how much of our life is dependent on
> natural gas for cooking, heating and hot water?
>
> How many of our homes are set up for efficient heating with natural
> methods such as wood, pellet, passive solar?
>
> We will run out of natural gas, just as we deplete our crude supplies
> in the near future.
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/High-Noon-Natural-Gas-Energy/dp/1931498539
>
> Natural gas is a raw material in many of our products we depend on.
>
> Almost all the helium we produce comes from natural gas.
>
> Propane, synthetic fertilizers, ammonia?
>
> They are totally dependent on natural gas.
>
> Our population boom was fueled by synthetic fertilizers made from
> natural; gas. Once the gas dries up so does the fertilizer and a
> shortage of fertilizer equals a shortage of food.
>
> Natural; gas is also used as an energy source to produce steel, glass,
> paper, clothing, brick, electricity
>
>
http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/natural-gas
>
>
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/2003/4-14-2003/natgasn.html
>
>
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/natural...
>
> You still have some valuable time left to prepare for what awaits you
> down the road.
>
> We are in the 'Indian Summer' of a carbon based world. Don't wait
> until the winter sets in to start work on your preparedness efforts.
>
> We can't depend on the President to come clean with the public. All
> his energies are spent just trying to keep the oil flowing. He can't
> admit that the oil will stop in the not so distant future, no matter
> what we do. It is a problem beyond his as well as all of our control.
>
> As they say in 12 Step programs - admitting you have a problem is step
> 1. And our country cannot admit it, after all, admitting this problem
> would raise hell with our retirement funds. And until we can admit it,
> we cannot begin on our long road to a 'semblance' of recovery.
>
> And in the big picture, we can't fix the problem, we can only postpone
> the inevitable. But buying a little more time would make things much
> more livable in the not so distant future than the current path we are
> headed in.
>
> The world is in a death spiral and politicians as well as industry are
> pretending this problem does not exist. We can only blame ourselves,
> for it is just how we have built our world over the years....too many
> people, living outside of natures intended balance and not an infinite
> supply of energy to fuel all our demands.
>
> It would be one thing if we all reverted back to rural living, burning
> trees for fuel and housing and living within our comfortable means
> allotted to us by nature, as our ancestors did back in the day. But
> ten billion people can't burn the trees! (Ten billion people is a
> conservative estimate of world population in the not so distant
> future. We are at 7 people billion now.)
>
> The World Coal Institute estimates world energy reserves as follows:
>
> "At current production levels coal will be available for at least the
> next 155 years compared to 41 years for oil and 65 years for gas."
>
>
http://www.worldcoal.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=21
>
> Even though this was written a few years ago and it is based on
> 'current production and consumption' it gives the same haunting
> message to the generations to come.
>
> We may not exactly see the end of our free flowing energy as we know
> it - but some of our descendants will in the not so distant future.
> This is the legacy they will inherit from us. But before the energy
> dries up completely massive changes in our world will have taken
> place.
>
> Our population has grown to levels where it has passed the point of no
> return for supporting a sustainable human population as we know it
> today when it comes to their energy demands.
>
> And leading the pack of over consumers is the USA.
>
>
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption
>
> Consumption is ingrained in us and we know no other way. And even if
> we wished to amend our ways, how could all our retirement funds take
> the hit? America is built on borrowed money, spending and consumerism.
>
> And what does all that consumerism lead to?
>
> It leads to the mess we are in now and the bigger mess the world will
> be in once India and China pick up momentum to copycat the envious
> lifestyle that they have held in high esteem as the 'American Dream'
>
> You see, the problem is not with the earth having enough land for all
> its people - the problem is with earth providing ad infinitum for all
> the needs the people crave.
>
> The more people born, the more heat is produced from their life and
> all their cravings, As such, the warmer and more polluted the earth
> gets and the more energy they all use and the earths resources are
> depleted.
>
> Fueling the problem of consumption is the games the Federal and World
> banks play with interest rates. They manage the economies in ways to
> fuel consumption and mask the real trend. Witness the recent cries for
> Federal bankers to lower interest rates...so the stock market can go
> up...fueled by spending of the consumer.
>
> It is drug habit that Greenspan got us hooked on and we just can't get
> away from.
>
> Our economy is not based on sustainable health - it is based low
> interest credit to encourage compulsive spending, debt and living a
> life of constant consumption with a 'disposable mentality' when it
> comes to durable goods.
>
> All this consumption to artificially fuel our economy to make our
> retirement funds only go up contributes to more and more global
> warming and the depletion of our natural resources. Then the
> governments juggle the numbers to make the inflation figures seem
> artificially low, so everyone's retirement portfolio will make them
> happy so they will continue to buy and consume more...and on it
> goes....IT IS ALL WE KNOW
>
> You see, no other animal destroys its environment except mankind. We
> are the only ones that do not accept and live within our comfortable
> means. We not only debt with our finances we debt with our
> environment. What we are borrowing in terms of petroleum, coal and
> natural gas takes millions of years for nature to make. Yet we are
> using it all up in just a few hundred years...we can never pay it
> back.
>
> I think our countries future will be....'America...a Democratic,
> Communist Nation Under God.'
>
> And maybe I am using the wrong ...
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