Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: Going Off the Grid
Our society even before the Internet was in a state of Too-Much-Information and today nobody can get away from it for a moment. From a practical point of view, I think to the average American this picture is too big to grasp and thus fear may = doomsaying, etc. Recently, I met an older Native American named Corbin (he was famous in the anti-nuke days). Corbin has a hot springs area near Las Vegas where people can go for healing Native American rituals. Corbin says they are making every attempt to go "off the grid." I had never even heard of such a thing but it has given me much cause for thought since then. Perhaps more of us could start to consider going off the grid, for all of the good reasons there, and the imminent and real reasons like oil shortages that are coming in our future. If we have to go back to the horse and buggy it suits me!
Joined: May 24, 2004 Posts: 3429 Location: California, USA
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:
Exactly. Think of the grid as a storage battery: when you're producing more power than you need, you feed it into the grid and get paid; and when you're needing more than you're producing at the moment, you use some spare capacity from the grid.
See, the grid isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing; think of it as a sharing mechanism for multitudes of small independent power producers as well as the utilities. You can think of it as the energy equivalent of the internet.
Exactly. Think of the grid as a storage battery: when you're producing more power than you need, you feed it into the grid and get paid; and when you're needing more than you're producing at the moment, you use some spare capacity from the grid.
See, the grid isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing; think of it as a sharing mechanism for multitudes of small independent power producers as well as the utilities. You can think of it as the energy equivalent of the internet.
The problem is, people dont. If every house had 3 GOOD solar panels on it, how much less non renewable resources would we use? How many less times would we hear about power outages and brownouts....
Corporate bullshit has infected our basic ways of thinking.
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