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Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by vision-master » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:01:02
Shorty, what have you been doing here, Fuel prices go up, almost everything else goes up too.
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by Sixstrings » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:02:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Xenophobe', '[')b]The jobless and the poor have already stopped consuming, maybe some couldn't even consume in the first place.
You're forgetting the four million folks drawing unemployment checks who are about to get a big fat Tea Party lump of coal in their Christmas stockings. You think taking all that money out of circulation will have no effect on the service and consumption economy?
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by Plantagenet » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:05:06
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '.'). saving whatever domestic oil we can is SMART in terms of peak oil mitigation. We should continue to use foreign oil right up until the whole world is falling apart and oil can't be found anywhere.. then that would be the time to tap our last reserves.
Thats why we need an intelligent energy policy that takes the peak oil problem into consideration instead of the policy flip flops we've gotten from the Obama administration.
It takes about 10 YEARS to develop an offshore oil field. The idea that we can close down our offshore oil industry now only to suddenly call on them to rehire the workers and rebuild the rigs and spring to action to "tap" our last reserves years from now when the whole world is falling apart isn't going to work.
We need to start the process of "tapping" our last reserves at least 10 years BEFORE the whole world falls apart. Seeing as how oil peaked in late 2005 and the global economy collapsed as excess production capacity was used up, it might be a good idea to start now.
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by vision-master » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:07:40
Planeted, you should know 'off shore drilling' ain't gonna cut it.
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by Cog » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:09:45
The unemployed will get their extensions right after the Senate Democrats give the Senate Republicans the Bush tax cuts that they are after. Then we can go back to focusing on the real doom of peak oil.
Sorry, there will be no legislation that will solve that one.
Sorry, there will be no legislation that will solve that one.
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by vision-master » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:15:36
It's only Illuminati notes....... 
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by Ludi » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:27:16
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')As for far as declining resources, there's nobody to blame other than human nature -- just like any other species that's too successful, has no natural predators, and so over-populates beyond what its environment can support.
')As for far as declining resources, there's nobody to blame other than human nature -- just like any other species that's too successful, has no natural predators, and so over-populates beyond what its environment can support.
Except not all human societies do that, as I've pointed out ad nauseum.
It's not "human nature" to overpopulate beyond what the environment can support. If it were, there would be no examples of human societies which did not do that. On the contrary, there are many examples of such societies. Ours is not one of them. You can ignore anthropology all you want, but it doesn't make it true.
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Re: Jobless America Can't Survive $90 Oil
by Blacksmith » Sat 04 Dec 2010, 20:27:55
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'C')rap. Anyone who has been here even a short time undestands that domestic offshore drilling is a distraction, that these reserves amount to little.
Your partisan blinders have kept your education at a remedial level. If you plan on ever graduating from PO Kindergarden you'd better drop your tired agenda.
Your partisan blinders have kept your education at a remedial level. If you plan on ever graduating from PO Kindergarden you'd better drop your tired agenda.
Absolutely correct, the problem is not offshore oil or the lack thereof. The problem is the FED printing money, driving up inflation to protect the banksters.
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Hows that again. As far as I know the only way to stop consuming is to die preferably without an elaborate funeral or a protracted probate fight by your heirs. 
