Economy

Hello out there,
Does anyone else out there feel like this is more than just a recession/depression? Does anyone feel like maybe the way of life we have become accustom to may be over? That maybe this is not gonna turn around and maybe we need to focus on how our species will continue to survive when we can no longer buy things on credit, how trips to the store will become increasingly more difficult as gas prices spike up and down as we start to realize that DRILL BABY DRILL may have been the dumbest statement ever made! Maybe it's time to see that no one is going to bail us out of anything, and it's gonna be all on you to save your self and your family. Let me address oil 1st it is true that if you look at a computer model map of the earth that it appears oil is everywhere. The problem is it is extremely deep, EXTREMELY DEEP and the cost of getting that oil out of the ground is VERY EXPENSIVE. So what you say well if it cost a lot to get it out of the ground then refine it etc etc. Well those cost are going to be passed on to you so Drill baby drill makes no sense we are not finding any new oil wells anywhere in the world that have oil at a reasonable depth. The major oil fields in Mexico and Saudi Arabia are depleting at an alarming rate and within 5 years will no longer be able to meet demand. So what happens then? It will be too late then to start a major push for "new" sources of fuel and power. Major systems will collapse we have started seeing it already with banks, people forget that over last summer gas prices soared to almost 4.40 a gallon here on long island, that was the precursor to what happened a few months later. It was a warning that we are severely outta whack!!! What have we done to put us on a path to fix this? The answer is NOTHING we voted for change and it is early in the Obama administration but the continued tossing of money in the wrong directions appears to be continuing. Passing a stimulus package that spends millions on repairing infastructure and roads is like digging a hole and shoveling our cash right into it! Money should be being spent making trucking obsolete and moving back to shipping our goods via Railways, and rebuliding our ports such as the erie canal where we can move goods via barge from the east coast into the middle of the country, but there is no mention of this in Obama's package. We are rapidly running out of time to make changes in out lives like James Howard Kuntsler says we need to become much more local in everything we do. Kuntsler has opened my eyes to the plight that faces this country in the very near future. His book THELONG EMERGENCY is an excellent read for anyone who wants to see the reality of whats comming not the false promises of desperate governments and the informationless news that we are fed like sheep. What are the answers? That is for each person to sit and do deep soul searching as to what you can do to ensure your family's survival, what we have seen so far is most likely no where near as bad as it will get. I will include a link to James Howard Kuntsler's web page at the end of this blog it's well worth it to visit it. Personally I think it is imperative that if the surburbs are to survive they be made self sufficient and to do that your going to need a variety of things per household one is not gonna be enough. You cannot bank on only solar power to run all of your house, you need solar panels, you also need geo -thermal heating and don't believe the bullshit when they say you can't get that heating unless you live in a vlocanic area BULLSHIT anyone with some property can have geo thermal heating there are different ways to go about it I will search for a link for all of you. Cars are just gonna have to be driven less, Mass transit and walking are going to have to take the place of the automobile. If you dont think I'm right about the oil step back and lose your your political affilations and ask yourself. Why are we really in Iraq? and Afghanastan? Why when Georgia Attacked South Osseita did we say Russia must end it's aggression towards Georgia?? Puzzling since Georgia was the agressor or did it have to do with natural gas and oil and a pipline Georgia and the US want to cut through South Osseita so they can control oil flow into Turkey and stick it to Russia who supplies Natural Gas to western Europe???? Research it yourself and see what you come up with. The Oil wars have begun and they are going to get worse as the realization sets in that we cannot just DRILL BABY DRILL to aquire more oil. As the 2 major fiels in Mexico (Cantarell) and Saudi Arabia(Ghawar) rapidly deplete these wars are going to get more numerous and much more intense. http://home.entouch.net/dmd/ghawar.htm
What does it mean for you on a daily basis it means its high time to get your shit in order and start depending on your local communities and stop waiting for some government program to bail you out.
Kuntsler's web site: http://www.kunstler.com/