[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On May 6, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Demon Buddha wrote:
> 	I've been working on that one for a while.  I have a few more years 
> of this insanity, then I drop out.



You might not want to wait that long. I am reading The Long Emergency 
by James Kunstler. He thinks that we have already or will very soon 
pass the point of peak oil production worldwide. He thinks that the big 
oil discoveries have already been made and that extracting liquid oil 
from oil sand and shales takes too much energy to be worthwhile. Altho 
the price of oil may make such oil economically feasable the end price 
will be so high that we won't be able to afford it anyway. This at a 
time that China and India are just pulling up to the pump. Things could 
get hairy real fast once people start to realize that 'the end is 
near'.

You can read an excerpt from the book here...

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency/

Bob