April 5, 2005
$105 a barrel oil
Posted by tomo at 09:34 PM in news , transportation . | 3 Comments
Goldman Sachs says oil could spike to $105/b
Is it time to revisit peak oil?
In short, we're running out of energy rapidly and like it or not we're going to have to revert our worst mistake ever, vast suburban sprawl, back into community farmland if at all possible. Better get used to walking, as well as growing your own food. We should start abandoning roads now. Some states, like Michigan, have found they can't afford to maintain their current roads, much less build new ones. We need a federal government which realizes the unsustainability of supporting freeways instead of freerailway choices in light of peak oil.
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The Rolling Stone article started out well enough, but it is hard to take anyone seriously when they stop presenting facts and start going off on wild personal theories about doomsday based on the overgeneralization of sects of people and how they will react to an energy crisis. I mean, come on: "I'm not optimistic about the Southeast, either, for different reasons. I think it will be subject to substantial levels of violence as the grievances of the formerly middle class boil over and collide with the delusions of Pentecostal Christian extremism. The latent encoded behavior of Southern culture includes an outsized notion of individualism and the belief that firearms ought to be used in the defense of it." What does this have to do his oil argument again? Posted by: ryan at April 5, 2005 11:20 PM |
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Where is Dude on this one? Posted by: John G at April 7, 2005 1:11 PM |
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His writing style seems unnecessarily dense to me. It's hard to get anything meaningful out of that article. This is the one that got me: "lost in dark raptures of nonstop infotainment". I feel like I'm reading his senior thesis. Not to change the subject or anything... Posted by: Emily at April 7, 2005 3:01 PM |