[killJOY]

Jay Farrar has composed the ultimate post-oil song.

http://easylink.playstream.com/rounder/whenthewheels.wax

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]When the wheels don’t move

Who will work the assembly line
Who will pull the freight on time
Who will work the all night haul
Who will explain it all
When the wheels don’t move

Bigger chariots didn’t save Rome
Easy money didn’t stay at home
They said the iron horse would always roam
Who will tell the children
When the wheels don’t move

Man’s power over nature
Hubris and greed let the fossil fuels burn
No way to keep the wings in flight
When the turbine engines don’t move

Going green a casino catch phrase
Ethanol is made of smoke and mirrors
Who makes the decision
To feed the tanks and not the mouths
When the wheels don’t move . . .

The red planet as salvation
Divine hope turns to depredation
Who’ll be left to make that station
Devoid of god and nation (we trust)
When the wheels don’t move

[kjmclark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '&')quot;Peak oil awareness" has been reduced to a gaggle of failed-novelists-turned-agrarian-romantics, 9/11 Internet conspiracy nuts, and apocalyptic bloggers hawking freeze-dried pork chops.

I'm going back to my plow.