>On Jun 27, 7:04 am, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

>> I feel like Rhett telling the Southern plantation owners they gonna
>> lose.
>>

>>> The "brick wall" is the fact of overpopulation.  China does not have
>>> adequate resources for its people to live an American life style.

>>
>> They can buy all the coal, oil and food they need as long as they
>> continue to, as both you and Warren Buffet suggest, work 16 hours/day.
>>
>> And that's exactly what they will do.
>>
>> 15 years from now world production of oil will be petering off, maybe
>> 50%% of what it is today and India and China will be getting as much of
>> it as the U. S.
>>
>> We will be living on < 1/6th of the petroleum we now receive.
>>
>> I'm using "we" the way the Gipper used it -- it really only includes
>> the rich.
>>
>> Most Americans won't be using any fuel whatsoever.
>>
>> In other words, we'll be living [read: dying] a "short brutish
>> existence."
>>
>> The important thing in the short term is to keep as many "downwardly
>> mobile" Americans connected and registered to vote.
>>
>> If they just become homeless and don't vote it will truly become
>> hopeless.
>>
>> The best we could hope for then is a caste system like India.
>>
>> Bret Cahill
>>
>> "We hit the jackpot."
>>
>> -- Reagan

>
>I don't get the either/or false dichotomy between drilling for more
>oil vs. alternative energy. We can do both. The Democrats, the