[dohboi]

Lore wrote: "We're in a car spinning out of control and the inexperienced driver is most likely going to overstear. So for those that are still sleeping in the back seat, time to wake up!"

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'D')eath is guaranteed. What is variable is what goes on afterwards.

[dohboi]

Treebeardsuncle wrote about the American auto industry:

"Their way of doing things is to feed people over-priced resource destroying unsafe garbage that will soon break down so they will get more and cover up the repulsiveness of their bilge through advertising."

Pure poetry!

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'D')on't bother, Cid. He's a wanker. He has no balls in his or any other court.

[wisconsin_cur]

A reminder to please insert a link to the original post when you suggest a quote.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', 'R')ight now, we cannot develop a national consensus in the theories of evolution, plate techtonics, or climate change, so the odds of being able to accomplish this (an energy Manhattan Project) are actually close to zero.

[charliehelyes]

A nation who couldn't agree to switch to the metric system has zero chance of overcoming the challenges of peak oil

[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('charliehelyes', 'A') nation who couldn't agree to switch to the metric system has zero chance of overcoming the challenges of peak oil

[Iaato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Peak Oil is going to destroy our way of life as we know it and what will replace it will be poorer and tragic. I hang on to the right to weep, I hang on to compassion. "

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JPL', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('charliehelyes', 'A') nation who couldn't agree to switch to the metric system has zero chance of overcoming the challenges of peak oil

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'W')e have plenty of uneducated bureaucrats that have never produced a thing of value in their life "working" at the Fed. It would be a boon to our society to replace them with my cat. Those criminals have done more to damage Americans than Al Queda could ever dream. It's no "masterful piece of central banking" for Gentle Ben to print up another billion to bail out bankers at expense of the poor. Bendover says that "average Americans who save dollars are unaffected by the deval-- (caught himself) decline of the dollar." Bullshit. And not even plausible-sounding bullshit, like Greenspan's. The only difficult thing about central banking is coming up with the fresh lies all the time, and revamping your stupid economic theories about "conundrums" and "global savings gluts" and the like to misdirect blame away from yourself, earning the glowing admiration of the buffoons in congress whose projects you finance with inflation. It's no wonder they can't even find 7 rats to do it, because rats know a sinking ship when they smell one, and if there is one thing a politician knows how to do, it's push off the problem to later generations, pass the buck, and cover their ass.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('patience', 'T')his will get ugly. Fast.

[dinopello]

Jack (of course):
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')othing is truly sustainable. In the fullness of time, every star in the universe will die.
Before that, the sun will die.
So the question becomes sustainable over what period of time?
A few decades works for me.

[dohboi]

fletch wrote: "I might have to exchange 100 goats to buy a gallon"

[Devil]

Politicians are like birds; they sing sweetly while they feather their nests.

[Aaron]

What this thread needs is of course... more cow bell.

[flash width=250 height=250]http://www.youtube.com/v/EVbAuMr5eac&hl[/flash]

[Devil]

Like this?

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pfish', ' ')People are pissed that the price is high. I have said this before and I will say it again, when people come in with a different opinion than yours, don't chase them out. They are the people you want on this board.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hese economic reports, at least the ones that are publicly stated, have been tinkered with and watered down over the past few years so that the numbers will look good in the media. This is like doing a beautiful landscape painting on your car windshield. Looks good, but does not help you steer, and does not help you do any future planning.