> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:52:11 -0700 (PDT), jtnospam@yahoo.com wrote:
>

>>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

>
> snip...
>
> Drilling rigs max'd out, Crews max'd out. decaying infrastructure.
> Everything is booked up for the next decade or so.
>
> There is no way to drill out of this mess.
> Simmons pointing these facts out to the ignorant public three
> years ago..
>
> http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/Orleans-SCI%%20Energy%%20Investor.pdf