peak oil christmas

PEAK OIL CHRISTMAS


I had to buy a new bicycle. After a year and a half use, almost five thousand miles, the original equipment mostly replaced, I finally ran into an unfixable problem. I had replaced the inner pedal parts but the part holding the pedal assembly itself to the frame is not available as a replacement part. Evidently the Wal-Mart bike is not designed to see anywhere near that kind of use. Rather than spending $100 for a new bike, then paying the labor to install the part, if even possible, I just bought a new bike store, made in America bike for $300. It has the same frame and tires but is a seven speed, hand brake type ( mine was a single speed beach cruiser ). Not what I wanted but I now have a quality made, easily repaired bike. My point here is not that this was my Peak Oil Christmas present to myself, although it was, but that I wish to thank my loyal minions and their generosity for indirectly buying the bike for me. I had $150 in Google ads ( I get paid bi-monthly ) and a hundred bucks in Pay-Pal donations. My token Christmas bonus paid the rest. So I didn’t have to dip into my existing savings for the bike. Thank you very much, one and all.

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I keep forgetting, but our partner in crime Creekmore over at http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/ has a nifty new free e-book for you to look at, download, fold into interesting shapes for the kids and forward to the relatives so perhaps if all the planets align perfectly will get off their dead asses and start to prepare so as not to show up at your doorway two seconds after Miami is nuked by Fidel and remind you how much you owe them after they hand knitted an afghan for you.

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Speaking of acts of terrorism, it is now time to weigh in on the Christmas Bomber episode. I like to slink back into the shadows and watch everyone else foolishly glibber over their keyboards before I jump out, whip back my cape with a flourish and act as if I knew what has been going on the whole time. Plus, it is interesting to hear what National Pravda Radio has to say first. My current pet theory is that the more NPR devotes to a subject the more BS is needed to disguise the real reason something happened. I mean, if you paid me enough I would perform unnatural acts on farm animals. It would have to be an awful lot, but I still can be bought. So I have no problem believing that NPR is bribed with public funding to be a propaganda tool for those in power. The higher and shriller a voice they use on a subject, the more concerned and paranoid I am over it. And the only friggin thing I’m hearing is Blah, Blah, fuggity Blah, Blah Christmas Bomber, Blah. So why are they pushing this thing so strong? The whole thing stinks to high heaven. A total incompetent acting moronically with a dramatically staged rescue. I mean, Oswald would be proud as punch.

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At first I was going to title this article A CIA Christmas. Certainly the intelligence community is going to get more power and funding over this inflated hysteria. And whichever minion in the bowels of Langley thought up this little play is going to get a promotion, a two for one coupon to the neighborhood Gentleman’s Club, and a fruit basket for next Christmas. The unemployment numbers will be massaged as more citizens find gainful employment with the Stassi. Perhaps we will get a few more colors to add to the warning level ( oh for all the love of all the gods, Henry, we are at Condition Purple! I hope our BOB is all ready to go! ). But that can’t be it. Too simplistic and too little of a stimulus to justify the effort and investment.

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So the only thing left that makes sense to me is that this is simply more effort to cripple the airline industry. Oil at $150 didn’t bankrupt enough of them. The current Depression and Credit Drought isn’t taking enough airlines out of the air. The one thing sure to dampen demand for flying by private citizens is even more strict security at airports. Frighten them now with detention and inconvenience, plus start recording everyone’s activity. Then, sometime in the future, we know who to punish for Grievous Acts Against Nature From Carbon Burning. But the important thing is to put a serious damper on oil use by airlines. Kill demand, save a dwindling resource. Now, I can already hear you. Oh, Jim is so Woo-Woo, out in left field, crazy as a crap house rat. But think about it. What else is the CIA going to do? Overthrow China? They need to stay active, and a few staged terrorist acts help in a gradual draw down in energy use. It is just one part of a greater whole. Just being over in Iraq isn’t going to cut it. Using their fields exclusively we would be right back to Peak Oil in a few months. Better to restrict use than rely on stolen fields. Although I wouldn’t be surprised to see Cantrell bought up by Exxon and patrolled by Blackwater supervised by CIA personnel by the end of the year.

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Think about the JFK assassination. Why did it happen? If it wasn’t a Banker Coup it was to instill a pro-war president to goose military spending ( or, he was simply killed because Marilyn Monroe gave him syphilis and it was feared he would go nuts and nuke Russia. Think about it ). Surely we can agree that it was a huge expense and logistical nightmare ( multiple snipers don’t come cheap, not the ones who go underground afterwards ). All for a small change in policy. So why would this effort to scare citizens out of fuel use be farfetched? Evidently we pay folks too much in welfare, because they are still driving around unemployed. Expect multiple battles on this front to take away the American appetite for oil. As long as it keeps the system floating along. Draw downs are a bitch.

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