[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'V')ery little public transport out here in the sticks (most of the South Island ie)

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hether it is oil or our addiction to debt, there's some serious belt tightening ahead, and motoring will take a hit. Problem is out here in the sticks, public transport is zero and I daren't cycle on the busier roads.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'M')ate, you lost the right to deem South Africans non-natives when you stole our sports players. .

[americandream]

Wots the bet you're a Ad hom deleted ? We're still behind the times down here seein as we don't have buses.

Small towns and settlements are pretty much buggered as oil prices rise. As it is, there's something of a flight from places like Seddon where house prices are plummeting. I can see a return back to the '80's when small town New Zealand was solo mum land.

I'm in two minds about what's happening. On the one hand, I reckon it will devastate small communities, on the other I see it as inevitable and a perhaps necessary step to weaning us off imports of trash which no one needs. I reckon all this poncy convenience has made us a bit lazy, arrogant and soft. You just don't see op shops these days and no one will buy secondhand...well most anyways. This may well trigger some sort of local spirit of community enterprise and support.

[Crusty]

Or... Small Town NZ goes Transitional, smart blokes buy cheap as housing, start gardening on your good soil and regular rainfall, gear up before TSHTF and are stuck there with all those Single Mums and very few blokes.

Hmmm... sounds like a Martyr's Paradise (except they're not virgins.....obviously)

[Carlhole]

MarketWatch (watch video at the link)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')OSTON (MarketWatch) — The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed.
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you may think. According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now. Put that in your calendar.
It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power.

According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.

[JohnRM]

I am just wondering why the average American should care.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnRM', 'I') am just wondering why the average American should care.

[FairMaiden]

You might want to repost the link/video since sixstring's thread comes up as deleted...which is crazy bc second hit on my google search came up with that deleted post! haha.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'O')ops. Didn't notic six strings post same subject.

[mos6507]

So if the Age of America ends, do we still get our Carhole-predicted singularity?

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FairMaiden', 'Y')ou might want to repost the link/video since sixstring's thread comes up as deleted...which is crazy bc second hit on my google search came up with that deleted post! haha.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')o if the Age of America ends, do we still get our Carhole-predicted singularity?

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hich explains why the elites are invested in China. They're not stupid -- this place is going down, and the elites have wisely hitched their wagons to China. The die is cast and their will be no change.. our elites are already invested in Chinese success.

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')u]Predict when peak Science will occur and then come and argue with me. So far, nothing gives any indication that progress in Science & Technology is slowing down whatsoever.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dsula', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')u]Predict when peak Science will occur and then come and argue with me. So far, nothing gives any indication that progress in Science & Technology is slowing down whatsoever.

[kublikhan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')t hasn't got so much to do with peak oil as it has to do with the aging of America and the relatively young, highly educated, extremely motivated (not to mention HU-phuking-MONGOUS) Chinese population.

[Livewire713]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hich explains why the elites are invested in China. They're not stupid -- this place is going down, and the elites have wisely hitched their wagons to China. The die is cast and their will be no change.. our elites are already invested in Chinese success.

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Livewire713', 'I') agree, look what has happen to Fellowes. If the Elites start getting treated like second class citizens you know they'll come running home to mommy.