How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: CSIRO reports warns of $8/L Petrol
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PETROL could hit $8 a litre within a decade as oil production begins to dwindle and demand continues to soar, a CSIRO study to be released today says.
The study, Fuel For Thought, warns this would add up to $220 a week to the cost of running a medium-sized passenger vehicle by 2018, resulting in severe social and economic consequences.
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: CSIRO reports warns of $8/L Petrol
You talk about the Australian institution CSIRO? I don't think there will be a lot of reaction because it will not be a headline in the media.
"Courier Mail" is absolutely useless, and the TV does not inform either. I don't know about other newspapers but they don't seem to be much better.
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: CSIRO reports warns of $8/L Petrol
IMSancho wrote:
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PETROL could hit $8 a litre within a decade as oil production begins to dwindle and demand continues to soar, a CSIRO study to be released today says.
The study, Fuel For Thought, warns this would add up to $220 a week to the cost of running a medium-sized passenger vehicle by 2018, resulting in severe social and economic consequences.
Will be interesting to see the public reaction to this report seeing as the CSIRO is quite respected, it's getting a flogging on 'Sunrise' already...
All of the economists and financial strategists are taking a doomerish stance in recent months. It seems they have seen the writing on the wall, or the data in the spreadsheet. Now imagine where we will be at next year at this time if supply has not increased significantly. Just think about that for a moment. CSIRO is the bomb.
Simmons has also come out recently very doomerish. Talking about his farm in Maine and everything. Maine get's cold in the winter.
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