resource wars

RESOURCE WARS


Resource wars, it’s what’s for dinner. Resource wars are already a very concrete fact of life, although every American worth his SUV blatantly denies such a thing. And I’d wager that every Yuppie survivalist worthy of his plastic carbine denies such a thing. And I’d even place a left testicle on the line betting that eight out of ten Bison readers would proclaim to their dying breath that I am full of crap for blaspheming the American Way Of Life ( in Britain it was known as The White Mans Burden, at least having some panache by making it look like the Limey’s were all put upon trying to bring civilization to the savages- to all subjected people now and then it goes by colonialism ). To acknowledge that resource wars are reality, it would then follow that one would have to say that resources are indeed running out. Hell, just look at the problem we ( myself, the mouse in my pocket, and a few fools over at The Oil Drum- I’ve become a bit distrustful of certain other heretofore mentioned sites that are soft selling the crap out of Peak Everything like the sell out, pussy, pansy asses that they are ) are having pointing out, six friggin years AFTER the fact that Peak Oil is indeedily doodily here right friggin now.

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Well, you see, er, I’d stipulate with Nth degree of probability that with the proper technological application and, purely coincidentally you surely understand, a grant to my prestigious think tank/university, we can further the possibility that the green algae from my ass will power up our super fleet of flying cars very soon. Failing that of course, why, we simply just turn Colorado into an open pit, mine all the tar rock, use piped in water and piped in natural gas to process it, and with ONLY a minus Energy Return On Energy Invested of around two, we power up our future American Empire.

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Christ on a bent pogo stick, you can’t run an empire founded on 200-1 EROEI oil gushers with ethanol returning one half to two times energy, or with tar rock with an even lower return. You can’t even run it on deep water wells giving a ten or twenty to one. It isn’t about running out of oil, we will run out of corn first. It is about running out of cheap oil, which has already happened. Our imports decline in the range of five percent a year. Our percentage of corn turned to ethanol goes up steadily. We are already, have already, been fighting to control more and more of the diminishing oil. And the rest of the world is following. Egypt might have transitioned relatively peacefully, but in spots were the oil is, the civil wars are brutal. Either fighting as our proxy, or fighting for their lives, no one gets out easy if oil is involved. You all look around like frightened weasels, ready to scurry back into your sheetrock and stucco burrows ( okay, I don’t know if weasels actually have burrows, but I liked the symmetry ), thinking this is all new and frightening. Crap, this stuff is old as the hills.

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I won’t confuse everyone, especially myself, by going back too far and using tribes I can’t even pronounce as examples, so let’s just meander back a bit in American history. Before the Comanche Indians started riding around Texas scaring everybody who showed up for a Spanish land grant, they were a pitiful and sad precursor. All the other surrounding Indians had kicked their pathetic asses until what was left of them huddled in some crap stained corner of Wyoming. And then, bless their pea picking hearts, the Spanish showed up with horses. One tribe got ahold of a few, and very quickly, in just a few generations, the Comanche had masters the animals to such a degree that they surpassed all other tribes. No other tribe matched the Comanche in mounted combat ( few even tried, most just riding to battle and then dismounting ). This was such an advantage, the Comanche started taking over the entire lower plains, the most fertile buffalo hunting grounds. Their memories of past injustices was on par with eastern European tribes in, say, Yugoslavia, although they were much better at extracting vengeance without having to worry about tank spare parts replacement or fuel.

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The Apache, who had the same kind of fanatical love for agriculture as most survivalists ( I’ll give up my asparagus when they pry it from my cold dead fingers! ), were in a nice fertile corner of Oklahoma and were especially hated by the Comanche. The Comanche proceeded to drive them off the farm and into the wastelands of the southwest. The Comanche empire eventually encompassed the entire buffalo population to the south ( the Sioux got the north ). They took over their food source and violently kept all others out ( contrary to “unstoppable bulldozer force of train transported white buffalo hunters” myth, the Comanche recognized this threat to their food and fought back, especially targeting the hunters. Only industrialization and vast European immigrants overwhelmed them ). They were just as efficient at controlling their food as the US is at controlling the oil. Both, of course, were eclipsed by historical forces.

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Fighting over food ( oil is our food proxy ) is normal. Everyone does/did it. And if you think you are safe in a fort in Indian Country ( look up the writings of Rachel Taulman- the family fort built at the edge of Texas civilization would be enviable by today‘s modern survivalist ), able to stop a mass mobilization to forcibly take over that food, you are delusional ( as delusional as I am about herding. It isn‘t about who is right, it is about recognizing the hazards in your plans ). Mass violent migration is the norm. As the War Of Northern Aggression general stated, you need to get there firstest with the mostest. You must anticipate others violent attempts to take your farm, and proactively defend it. It isn’t a pretty subject, and peaceful Christians more afraid of Lucifer than invading savages will resist going on the offensive. Which is strange, considering their upstanding, moral superior attitude about our occupation of the middle east. Perhaps if you pretend to be bringing democracy to the surrounding areas, it will be alright to engage in genocide since Baby Jesus will be on your side.

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