peak oil post #439

PEAK OIL POST #439


The problem with using Bird or Swine Flu as your main selling point to sell your doom and gloom writing is that conditions have to be just right for it to happen. I still don’t know what was up with the Idiot Brigade at the WHO calling a few thousand deaths from Barnyard Flu a pandemic. Lack of thesaurus? Desperate bid for funding as the CIA pulls back from vaccine contaminated man made virus African birth control? The problem with using economics as your main selling point is that there are too many unknowns. Is the government buying its own debt? How much are the statistics being manipulated? As you go screaming down the street in your camouflaged boxer shorts waving your AR-15 and hollering that we are all going to die, something unknown comes along and makes what would be an otherwise perfectly logical panic seem silly and unwarranted. American empire is once again pulled back from the brink as the black helicopters stop their aerial spraying of Mexico City or a few more trillion bucks in derivatives are created to paper over the crisis for another few month ( or, pension fund assets are sacrificed to goose the stock market for another weekly gain so the big players [hint: the guys we’ve already bailed out ] can sell off their toxic loans at a profit ).

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Peak Oil, on the other hand, is such a slam dunk crisis that everyone that hugs the problem tight and croons over it and nurses it out of its infancy is soon a hero across the land, ticker tape parades over the bright shiny new stew pot. I mean, come on! How hard is this stuff? Every few weeks there is major news over how much more we are screwed in the energy arena. Surprisingly, the majority still ignore it and secretly keep alive hope that if we could only just plant a derrick up Obammy’s butt it would shoot out green shoots as well a light sweet crude and all our problems would be solved. Oh, it is all just a vast right wing conspiracy and there are a gibillizon barrels of oil capped off in ( fill in the blank for area of your choice ). The wells are capped because it isn’t profitable to pump the sludge left in there, there are too many wells tied up overseas and thus a shortage, and the US is the heaviest explored region on Earth but it has still seen new discoveries decline for over seventy years ( other than Alaskan ). As it has globally for the last forty. Unless Abiotic Oil is not a fantasy, and unless the Grey’s have room temp fusion generators hidden in their space craft waiting to present it to Obammy ( Look! A Negro President! The Earthlings are so culturally advanced and enlightened we shall now shall all our technology with them ), Peak Oil is going to keep happening.

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I might poke fun and snicker about another Slow Collapse Guy over at http://americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/ but I really love this dude anyway. Okay, mostly it’s because he gives me free research to base my ranting on, but also because he actually does have his head out of his anal cavity and can think logically and clearly. I don’t want to embarrass him and make him blush and stammer, nor would I dream of making him try to avoid any public association with me, but if he ever desired, he can be an Honorary Loyal Minion. Last Thursday and Friday he ran two articles on the latest on import decline figures. Let me share with you, when I saw these numbers at first I thought that eating whole wheat twice a day was a really bad idea because it is almost too much fiber and I thought I was about to soil myself, but it turned out it was just my sphincter tightening up. I was so happy that I immediately declined to classify this under the old “happy financial news” and created a new category in honor of these numbers. The numbers are henceforth “giddy financial news”. Starting in 2006 to 2007 ( gee- a coincidence that this was one year after global peak occurred, don’t you think? ) our oil import numbers fell 3%. The next year, 2007 to 2008, they fell 8-1/2 %. 2008 to 2009 they were down 10%. And now, so far this year, down 6%. How many years do you need to see the unstoppable decline of oil imports? The oil started declining BEFORE the economy took a big squishy dump. The last figure of 6% isn’t even the full year. We are continuing to increase the amount of oil not being imported every year. We are already down 25% ( from 12-1/2 million barrels a day to 9-1/2 ). The collapse has just started ( here I’m limiting my panic to economic impacts, but you can hear the waterfall just up ahead, can’t you? ), and we are down 25% of our 70% of energy we don’t have up Obammy’s butt.

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We go from using 20 million barrels of oil a day to 15, and you aren’t panicking yet? Are you seriously that obtuse? Christ on a cracker! Almost four years of oil use decline and you don’t think this is the Mother Of All Energy Crashes? Energy is life. Our population is far too bloated and far too urbanized to live off of a few organic farms and there would be no way to get the food to them as transportation crashes. Okay, sorry, I’m trying to stay focused on economics rather than total collapse. As the only way to stretch out the dwindling supply of liquid fuel is to cut into citizen commuting, unemployment will soar even more. Which will cut even deeper into business activity, causing surges in more unemployment. We might all be on Lifetime Unemployment, but anyone can ask Zimbabwe how well a hyper-inflation economy works. As energy declines, we have no energy to construct, sell, buy, or commute. There is no growth to feed the debt interest. All economic activity in a capitalistic system dies with the banks ( as foul and rancid as they are, they are needed to keep the current system alive ). With energy decline, we can’t construct a new economy. We can grow our own turnips and fight over them, but it is a contracting economy. Printing money like mad and putting make-work nationalized employees on telecommuting duty will work for a time, but it is just temporary. All economic activity will grind to a halt with energy decline.

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Four years of decline. Ignore at your own risk. Just go back to your mortgage and SUV, but don’t come blaming me for lack of warning after you are in the stew pot.

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