[willjones4]

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnDenver', 'T')he idea, basically, is a Darwinian struggle for survival, where the strong overpower the weak and seize their booty. It's all about theft.

[MyOtherID]

Monte's right on this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_darwinism

I think JD means "Social Spencerism". Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MyOtherID', 'M')onte's right on this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_darwinism

I think JD means "Social Spencerism". Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

[gg3]

Five years of zero taxes on any automobile company that agrees to have a 100-mpg car as its standard model by the end of that time. This is a no-brainer because VW has already done it with the Lupo, which is quite popular in Europe.

Five years of zero taxes on any energy utility wind or solar project of 100 MW or greater, or a nuclear project of 800 MW or greater.

During this time, progressively jack up taxes on gasoline and provide an income tax offset to persons at middle class or lower income levels.

Zero the asset tax on telecommuter infrastructure (full disclosure: this would benefit me, I design & build that stuff for a living).

Absolute nationwide ban on building sprawl. We're at war, use emergency powers for something worthwhile for a change.

Emergency measure to override the CC&Rs in the 35,000 "planned communities" in California that ban outdoor clothes lines (clothes dryers are the third largest user of electricity in the home after climate control and refrigerators). Neighborhoods that wish to retain their bans on clotheslines can only do so if they demonstrate twice the national average rate of enlistment in the armed forces.

Emergency override on any zoning code anywhere that prohibits home offices or home-based businesses whose only impacts are the need for additional telecom capacity and shipping/receiving of goods via regular carriers.

Emergency measure to override NIMBYs on the Massachusetts wind project, and fast-track any other new wind, solar, or nuclear project.

Redirect highway funding to urban rail projects.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

[CARVER]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnDenver', 'T')he U.S. spent $1 trillion and got zero free oil out of the deal

[gigacannon]

Countries are just puppets of the corporations these days. The war in Iraq might have put the USA in debt, but what about the oil companies? Profit all the way.

What people perceive as the dubious actions of nations is really the perfectly natural operations of corporations.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gigacannon', '
')What people perceive as the dubious actions of nations is really the perfectly natural operations of corporations.

[whereagles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'G')od, this is going to get ugly. I dread the future. No wonder we're all a bunch of doom-and-gloom pessimists.

[SoothSayer]

>> Relax, Zardoz. History shows that worst-case-scenarios don't usually materialize. Besides, there's a lot of things we don't know. Maybe the situation isn't that bad after all.

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation." - Graffito (circa 1968)

[dbarberic]

Shhhhhhh......

Keep Peak Oil on the down low for awhile. I need more time to acquire more shares in natural resource, energy, and gold mining companies.

[seahorse2]

Cheney's "Russian black-mail" comments went over like a fart in a space suit in Russia. Although the Russian gov't is being more political in its response, but not happy, the Russian public is saying this is the start of the new cold war - or continuation of the energy wars (cheap oil crashed Soviets in round one, expensive oil will crash the US in round 2?).

Yahoo News

Sounds like other media is reading this site to call it another cold war, or at least, you heard it first on peakoil.com

According to a link posted by Jato, Bush says 9-11 was the beginning of WWIII - that's scary.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jato', '[')url=http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/05/060505220719.qnjzncm8.html]Bush says fight [s]for oil[/s] against terror is 'World War III'[/url]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S President George W. Bush said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III."

In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it "our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war -- World War III"...

[gigacannon]

Corporations make profit, and the biggest ones are clearly very good at this. But that's all they do; they often operate through the manufacture of goods and services that we don't need.

[MyOtherID]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gigacannon', 'C')orporations make profit, and the biggest ones are clearly very good at this. But that's all they do

[JoeCoal]

I just put this at the top of my Netflix Queue. Looks good...

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Plus', 'W')hich war was STARTED because of resources (winning is a different question)?

[gigacannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MyOtherID', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gigacannon', 'C')orporations make profit, and the biggest ones are clearly very good at this. But that's all they do

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Plus', 'W')hich war was STARTED because of resources (winning is a different question)?

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')t seems pretty obvious to me that the US is planting a huge permanent footprint in the ME ...

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'Y')ou wage proxy wars (Iraq vs Iran in the 80s), isolate potential countries (Iran in 2005/2006), threaten other countries (Russia/China) and be a general dick on the block...