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: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: Those who control oil and water will control the world
funzone36 wrote:
Anyone who plays real time strategy games know that controlling the resources means controlling the world.
I find this even more evident in many turn-based strategy games. _________________ "If humans don't control their numbers, nature will." -Pimentel
"There is not enough trash to go around for everyone," said Banrel, one of the participants in the cattle massacre.
"George W. Bush loves poor people. He keeps making more of them." -unkn
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: Those who control oil and water will control the world
Corporations join competition for limited water
California town's struggle with bottler reflects issue across country
By Samantha Young updated April. 11, 2008
McCLOUD, Calif. - The lumber mill closed five years ago, and so many families moved out that the town can no longer even field a high school football team. But McCloud is hoping to turn things around by exploiting the other natural resource in abundance along the icy flanks of Mount Shasta — water.
The town of 1,300 people in far Northern California struck a deal with Nestle in 2003 under which the Swiss company would build the nation's largest water bottling plant to tap three of the many springs on the mountainside and bottle up to 521 million gallons of water a year. ...
Thirsty? _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
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