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I just about fell out of my chair this morning!

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Wed 24 Jan 2007, 11:20:56

So I was watching the morning financial reports over coffee this morning (As I normally do). This fellow, Wolfgang Klein from RBC Dominion Securities is a regular on CityTV. I always thought he was a little myopic in his commentaries on oil, but this morning he said something that nearly made me fall out of my chair.

He was talking about the President's speech last night, specifically the section about ethanol. He said something to the effect that if the US devoted 100% of it's corn production to ethanol, it would only account for a tiny percentage of it's fuel consumption.

Of course, we've all known about this for a long time. But to hear it on the morning financial report on the most widely watched morning news program in Canada was absolutely astonishing. But it didn't stop there.

He and the host went on to talk about how this ethanol initiative was causing food riots in Mexico and how meat prices were rising because meat producers use corn as an input. He even mentioned the corrosiveness of ethanol making it impossible to ship it by pipeline.

I couldn't believe how frank and open they were being. All that was missing was a tirade about government subsidies and I'd swear he was a poster here.
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Re: I just about fell out of my chair this morning!

Unread postby NEOPO » Wed 24 Jan 2007, 11:27:16

Is your chair missing a screw or something? :)
This kinda stuff does not shock me at all at least not anymore.
Maybe the first few months of being peak aware I was happy to see others waking up yet ultimately the people we always hoped would wake was the sheeple and the government and we know the government is aware and actively trying to prevent the sheeple from seeing the truth.

Does anyone really believe the sheeple waking up will solve the problem?
Funny if they do because most of the smartest people in this room understand that there is no solution.

I will be shocked if we manage to avoid die off and anything short of that gets a resounding "DUH" from this peaker.
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Re: I just about fell out of my chair this morning!

Unread postby Chicken_Little » Wed 24 Jan 2007, 11:35:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'S')o I was watching the morning financial reports over coffee this morning (As I normally do). This fellow, Wolfgang Klein from RBC Dominion Securities is a regular on CityTV. I always thought he was a little myopic in his commentaries on oil, but this morning he said something that nearly made me fall out of my chair.


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Re: I just about fell out of my chair this morning!

Unread postby GreenMarine » Wed 24 Jan 2007, 14:25:02

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Does anyone really believe the sheeple waking up will solve the problem?
Funny if they do because most of the smartest people in this room understand that there is no solution.
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bahhh ba bahhh

OMG I got mt voice back.


Reading this woke me up again. Hahahaha I keep falling into the trap of sheeple.
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