The world is running out of gas.
Something y'all may want to note: HYDROCARBONS ARE A FINITE RESOURCE!
An ex-president of a major oil company is predicting $5/gallon gas by 2012. Okay, worth a look, but what if this doesn't happen until 2020? To that I say, so fuckin' what? The point of my little tirade here is that we will begin to run out of oil and that it will happen in my lifetime.
Oh, but we're American so we don't have to worry about it. We'll just go knock over another oil-producing country's regime in the name of "freedom," and take all their resources, amiright? It's worked since WWII, why wouldn't it work now?
Well, there's fatal flaw with this way of thinking.
Sure, we have the most powerful military in the world, but we're losing the economic and geopolitical influence to back our military might up, rendering it worthless. Our republic is circling the drain because we've spent the last seventy years pursuing war and overconsumption instead of progress and prudence. As a result, we'll have to compete just like everyone else.
The only solution to this problem will come too late. Brace yourselves. I'm only glad I have such a short commute to work.
An ex-president of a major oil company is predicting $5/gallon gas by 2012. Okay, worth a look, but what if this doesn't happen until 2020? To that I say, so fuckin' what? The point of my little tirade here is that we will begin to run out of oil and that it will happen in my lifetime.
Oh, but we're American so we don't have to worry about it. We'll just go knock over another oil-producing country's regime in the name of "freedom," and take all their resources, amiright? It's worked since WWII, why wouldn't it work now?
Well, there's fatal flaw with this way of thinking.
Sure, we have the most powerful military in the world, but we're losing the economic and geopolitical influence to back our military might up, rendering it worthless. Our republic is circling the drain because we've spent the last seventy years pursuing war and overconsumption instead of progress and prudence. As a result, we'll have to compete just like everyone else.
The only solution to this problem will come too late. Brace yourselves. I'm only glad I have such a short commute to work.