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Sellis1012
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: We are so screwed. |
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MSNBC is headlining that high gas prices are here to stay.
"Unlike 70s, there is no more supply to quench growing appetite for crude"
Link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25127525/
Ya know, I was raised on shows like Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica, the first one. I saw Star Wars 3 times. I really believed we would always advance forward with technology. Now the reality is extraordinarily inverted. Now I am wondering if I will be able to feed my kids. This headline hit me extra hard because for some weird reason, it made it more true. I guess I was still shaking hands with denial. |
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Cashmere
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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Yep.
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Sellis1012
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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Your avitar is perfect. |
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POAlex
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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If your hope is in the things of this world, you're right.
God is still on the throne and in control. The question each of us need to ask ourselves is if we're right with Him?
Alex
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DantesPeak
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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Wow, they are still quoting Lynch, just when I though the MSM saw the light
| Quote: | Malaysia and India, groaning under the weight of high fuel prices, have just begun cutting subsidies. Analysts such as Michael Lynch of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Mass., said others will follow.
"At this level of prices, very few countries can afford subsidies if they are importing," he said. |
Da!
For those newcomers that don't know, Lynch 'debated' PO here when oil was around $40. At that time he expcted it to go down. He also expected it to go down to $40 when it went to $60 and then $80, and then just expected it to go down all the way up to $140.
So if they are still quoting Lynch and not Simmons, then the acceptance phase has some distance to go yet.
Countries, including the US, will be increasing the net amount of subsidies or reducing energy taxes even more than before. For example, India raised energy prices 10% over a period when prices increased 20% more.
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roccman
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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How did we go from speculators and dollar deval a month ago to we are out of oil?
500 mph into a brick wall.
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anagami
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| POAlex wrote: | If your hope is in the things of this world, you're right.
God is still on the throne and in control. The question each of us need to ask ourselves is if we're right with Him?
Alex |
God is in heaven, everything is "fine" in the world.
...from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Understand it as you wish.
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americandream
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| POAlex wrote: | If your hope is in the things of this world, you're right.
God is still on the throne and in control. The question each of us need to ask ourselves is if we're right with Him?
Alex |
God = Alex?
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kpeavey
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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Alex is taking on the role of peakoil.com Chaplain.
You might all be screwed, but at least he offers spirtual comfort.
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TWilliam
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| kpeavey wrote: | Alex is taking on the role of peakoil.com Chaplain.
You might all be screwed, but at least he offers spirtual comfort. |
Hmmm...
Fairy tales lost their ability to comfort me by the time I was around 8 or so. Never have been able to understand how it is that so many folks missed it that God is just Santa Claus on his days off... 
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Judgie
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:12 am Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| zensui wrote: | | POAlex wrote: | If your hope is in the things of this world, you're right.
God is still on the throne and in control. The question each of us need to ask ourselves is if we're right with Him?
Alex |
God is in heaven, everything is "fine" in the world.
...from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Understand it as you wish. |
Would'nt that be "God's in his heaven. All's right with the world"?
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seldom_seen
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:45 am Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| POAlex wrote: | | God is still on the throne and in control. |
God? Control? It sounds like something from a Lewis Mumford book.
POAlex, I love you man, as PO chaplain. Calling out god as a man on a throne is a big leap though. That take some hubris.
I say he might be a turkey vulture sitting on the rim of a dry and dusty canyon. |
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grampybone
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Joined: May 31, 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| Good article. Yes we are screwed. |
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Roy
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Joined: Jun 18, 2004
Posts: 754
Location: Western North Carolina
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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Save us HAWKMAN!!!!
Eat those non-believers first, of course.
We are screwed because of the massive denial of the populace at large and the goverment.
Nothing will be done until it is not possible to do anything meaningful.
Isn't that great? I suppose some communities and locales will fare better than others.
We are so f**ked. WASF. Happy Friday everybody!!  |
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TheTurtle
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Joined: May 14, 2005
Posts: 2123
Location: Along the banks of the muddy Mississippi
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: We are so screwed. |
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| seldom_seen wrote: | Calling out god as a man on a throne is a big leap though. That take some hubris.
I say he might be a turkey vulture sitting on the rim of a dry and dusty canyon. |
God could be a giant radioactive turtle flying through the sky looking for bad radioactive monsters with which to do battle.
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