We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Your mental state
I'm taking world events less seriously, so far
The people around me at work are on a downer but i feel like, i've seen the big picture and its scary and i'm up for taking it on. but they keep getting a drip feed of worse news and bad crap that seems to be affecting them worse. admittedly have freaked out a few times,
Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 223 Location: Australia
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: Re: Your mental state
I'm coping okay I guess.
I am going through what I'd describe as 'mourning the future'. I have two children, 3 and 1.5 years old. I fear for thier future more than anything.
Since (in my opinion) confirming peak oil, I have been obsessive about learning everything I can about it. From geologists reports to flipant tabloid articles. I am soaking up everything I can concievably read on the subject.
I feel like I have developed a personality split. One that maintains the present tragectory and one that quivers with fear of the future.
Until I sell our house, move back to the country and do something more meaningful about a sustainable future I'm going to feel very uncomfortable.
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Your mental state
the future isn't yet decided. who knows what collectively we might be able to achieve in the face of a crisis. i'm staying put here in the city, but i think my job is to protest the hell out of any politician who is too ignorant or mechanised to inspire that. the big protest is still to come
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Your mental state
the_red_pill wrote:
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Sorry folks, but they are sheeple. They are reality tv watching, cell phone yacking, totally clueless, lets go shopping, economists say everything will be fine, sheeple.
They are McMansions buying, SUV driving, debt ridden, clueless idiots.
They are wasteful, shamefully wasteful, Swiffer wet mop wasteful scum. They mock our only sensible president as the "cardigan doctrine" president.
They are cynical, smart ass sarcastic morons., and I wash my hands of them.
The best put I have ever read.
My mental state? I am surviving a midlife crisis due to PO. I literally am reinventing myself as I feel completely unplugged from my past life. I am trying to find myself and where to go next. I was one of those idiots she describes above. I feel helpless sometimes that I am having trouble convincing anyone else (besides my wife, thank god) that this is real and going to happen.
I have literally changed from black to white in just 2 1/2 months. Now I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. I am struggling to define a plan, a future, something we can try. Some days I wish I had taken the blue pill, but I am definitely glad to know.
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