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Peak oil and the coming collapse

billydkid

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Scary stuff. There are a few people out there saying it - that there is some serious trouble and change coming, and not in some manageable, predictable way. My feeling (and what do I know, really) is that we are on the verge of global catastrophic economic and social changes and those whacky survivalist types may have been right all along. I think there is a feeling in this country (the US) that nothing can really go terribly, horribly wrong here. To me the future looks pretty scary. I hope I am wrong.

http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2005/10/05/peak-oil-and-coming-collapse-five-rules-survival

What that whacky Dr. Paul is saying:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul466.html
 
billydkid said:
Scary stuff. There are a few people out there saying it - that there is some serious trouble and change coming, and not in some manageable, predictable way. My feeling (and what do I know, really) is that we are on the verge of global catastrophic economic and social changes and those whacky survivalist types may have been right all along. I think there is a feeling in this country (the US) that nothing can really go terribly, horribly wrong here. To me the future looks pretty scary. I hope I am wrong.

http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2005/10/05/peak-oil-and-coming-collapse-five-rules-survival

What that whacky Dr. Paul is saying:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul466.html
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Yeah...this has been said since before I was born in the 60s....
 
I am currently armed with a small armory of weapons and a larder of canned baked beans that will last me through the coming apocalypses. The twenty barrels of crude oil in the basement will make me rich when it becomes $1million per barrel hehehehe...
 
On the positive wouldn't a survivalist/Fall Out/Mad Max/post-apocalyptic world be sort of exciting?
 
billydkid said:
Scary stuff. There are a few people out there saying it - that there is some serious trouble and change coming, and not in some manageable, predictable way.
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I honestly don't know if the so called "wacko's" are right or wrong but I do know that I am paying far more for gasoline than I had ever expected to in my life time. I don't think it will get as bad as some folks are now saying but OTOH I've bought a bicycle and I've been stocking up on ammunition and *Kraft Dinner...:D

(*It's a little known fact that if you coat uncooked Kraft Dinner with the provided cheese powder it can be used as provisional buckshot capable of penetrating any body armor that might be worn by rampaging bulldozer drivers...)
 
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Cain said:
On the positive wouldn't a survivalist/Fall Out/Mad Max/post-apocalyptic world be sort of exciting?
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I'm planning ahead.
I've already stocked up on Football shoulderpads, skimasks, spiky wrist bands and Mohawk hair dye. I should be able to make a killing once Lord Humongous takes control.
 
I heartily encourage vast emotional investment in this Peak Oil concept (and the derivative "comming collapse" stuff) so that, when it doesn't happen, you can all remember it and, the next time something like this comes along, sigh and say, "evidence"?

Not too much investment, now! We don't want you turning into a religious-type person who maintains The Truth of the original concept, opting instead for any half-assed excuse as to why the world didn't end.


Oop, hehe, interesting comparison for a skeptic site. My bad.
 
"Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive."

Personally, I was hoping for a zombie apocalypse.
 
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