[shortonoil]

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Well, at least he won’t freeze to death after the collapse if he bought a good wood stove to burn his money in. How many BTUs can you get out of $2 billion in $20s?

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[LadyRuby]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kochevnik', ':')!:

My Name is Richard Rainwater.

[LadyRuby]

[topic merged by MQ}

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,1139979-1,00.html

Kochevnik, Eli, Liamj and Bruin all claim (in jest) to be Richard Rainwater. However, I want to come clean that I am the real Richard Rainwater. Life is hard when you're a billionaire, you have to do absurd things such as passing yourself off as some kind of hippy lady.

[lowem]

Yeah, and Montequest is Bill Gates and Aaron Dunlap is Steve Ballmer. Come on, you're kidding ... umm, right?

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LadyRuby', '[')url]http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,1139979-1,00.html[/url]

Kochevnik and Eli both claim (jokingly) to be Richard Rainwater. However, I want to come clean that I am the real Richard Rainwater. Life is hard when you're a billionaire, you have to do absurd things such as passing yourself off as some kind of hippy lady.

[thuja]

Wait that's my idea. Don't listen to Coyote Richard. I'm the one who deserves the land and the eco-structure. Me! I do! Pleeeeease!!

[MattSavinar]

If I had that type of coin, I'd have an off-the-grid ecocompound with a Gaddafi-style bodyguard contingent to protect me:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=5730

Best,

Matt

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lowem', 'Y')eah, and Montequest is Bill Gates ...

[UIUCstudent01]

I admit!

I'm his long lost adopted son.

Or not...

It'd be cool though if he randomly wrote people into his will that he like on-line and tracked down...

[Aaron]

Alright alright.

I'm actually a peak oil obsessed billionaire.

And I have set up a peak oil retreat on an isolated island, and will be taking applications beginning now in this thread.

To apply, send $500 to:

Ura Dumbass
6969 Reacharound Ln
Brownsville, Texas 2481632

[LadyRuby]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'N')aw, but I did achieve my goal of being totally debt free today.

[dub_scratch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')lright alright.

I'm actually a peak oil obsessed billionaire.

And I have set up a peak oil retreat on an isolated island, and will be taking applications beginning now in this thread.

To apply, send $500 to:

Ura Dumbass
6969 Reacharound Ln
Brownsville, Texas 2481632

[UIUCstudent01]

Source

Hmm... you should put it on the "Peakoil.com Is You!" list...

(Even more pictures:

Source

And there's plenty of stuff connecting him to Bush and his millions... and all that stuff...)

[joewp]

If he does lurk here, he's probably laughing his ass off.

[strider3700]

Well that article is scary and hopefull all at once. If a billionaire is scared about whats coming, those of us trying to scrape together 10-20k worth of supplies are going to take a hell of a beating. Anyone not even trying to prepair is done for. So That sets my doomerosity meter right maxed out. However he's not just trying to prepair to survive.

He's also prepairing to get even further ahead. I'm not sure if the average person can scrape together enough to try and make a move as well but at least their is hope. 500 million in cash must be nice. I'm really curious what he thinks will be worth spending it on.

[jaws]

Howard Hughes made a lot of money in his life, but he was still a nutjob.

[savethehumans]

I was so excited when I saw this article. I could hardly wait to share the link with you folks!

I should've known I'd be beaten to the punch--and couldn't be happier that I was! I think a lot more PTB know the same stuff this dude does. They are preparing. The rest of us? They are laughing all the way to the bank--or the mattress--or the private funds they've set up. Who among them cares about US?

[Revi]

The meek will inherit the earth. They are still finding hordes of silver in England where some Roman lord tried to stockpile his riches in a vain attempt to preserve himself and his family. Read Collapse. In the end of the Greenland colony the great farm at Gardar was attacked and all the cows were eaten. It may not prove to be a good strategy in the peak oil endgame to be so visible, unless the people around you are on your side. Feudal lord, ok, robber baron, no.

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Free', ' ')Funny, it's a bit like in one of those Agatha Christy crime stories were somebody gets killed on a party and suddenly everybody is under suspicion...

[The_Toecutter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')eudal lord, ok, robber baron, no.