Penny Wise And Pound Foolish [via The Hipcrime Vocab]

[nebris]

Sunday May 20th, 2012

I've said several times on this blog that our leaders are aware of Peak Oil and it's implications, and that they dare not acknowledge it for the effect it would have on the general public. I came to this conclusion based on on several reasons. 1.) The embracing of austerity seems to be a tacit acknowledgement that future growth

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[sinistertim101]

So you suggest an unsustainable route instead?

[nebris]

Go ask the author. [see link at bottom]

~M~

Not so much the Soviets and Nazis, more Dai Nippon Teikoku

[badnewswade]

The true believers do not see the folly of fighting wars for oil, only to burn that oil in more wars to secure more resources;

That's exactly what the Japanese militarists of the 1930s and 40s were like. It didn't end well for them...

BTW biofuels are a complete load of crap. It takes more energy to grow the crops than you get out of burning them; this is elementary school biology and physics.

Re: Not so much the Soviets and Nazis, more Dai Nippon Teikoku

[sinistertim101]

This will change as prices go up. What I would like to see is more natural gas use. We have plenty of it and companies burn it from garbage dumps and oil refining all the time.

You can get natural gas from seawage and animal and plant waste as well. It is much more sustainable and cleaner. The problem is Detroit would have to redesign cars and gas stations would have to adopt. IN the 1970s a few cars had natural gas engines. I used to work at Busch Gardens and the trams used 1970s engines from Jeeps that used it. We replaced it with diesel ones when I quit because they were becoming hard to find.