Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
pstarr wrote:
charliehelyes wrote:
A nation who couldn't agree to switch to the metric system has zero chance of overcoming the challenges of peak oil
We're not French. Inches, pounds, cups (both liquid and solid), tablespoons, teaspoons, and cokespoons work just fine. commie
If you work out global oil reserves in average decilitres per square kilometer and then convert back into US gallons you will instantly see that this 'Peak Oil' thing is strictly an American problem.
Mwa ha ha ha it was all a French plot - you are now all doomed due to your inability to understand our perfidious Gallic mathematics...
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Quote:
"Peak Oil is going to destroy our way of life as we know it and what will replace it will be poorer and tragic. I hang on to the right to weep, I hang on to compassion. "
Cur on Compassion during Descent _________________ "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." --Sinclair Lewis
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
JPL wrote:
pstarr wrote:
charliehelyes wrote:
A nation who couldn't agree to switch to the metric system has zero chance of overcoming the challenges of peak oil
We're not French. Inches, pounds, cups (both liquid and solid), tablespoons, teaspoons, and cokespoons work just fine. commie
If you work out global oil reserves in average decilitres per square kilometer and then convert back into US gallons you will instantly see that this 'Peak Oil' thing is strictly an American problem.
Mwa ha ha ha it was all a French plot - you are now all doomed due to your inability to understand our perfidious Gallic mathematics...
JP
FWIW, Charlie put my quote here. Thanks Charlie, it was a first. My wife, who is French, wishes to move back to France and after several years of discussing it I see the wisdom in her arguments, emotion aside.
If I gotta relocalize somewhere the Loire Valley beats the crap out of suburbia U.S. style.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
mattduke wrote:
We have plenty of uneducated bureaucrats that have never produced a thing of value in their life "working" at the Fed. It would be a boon to our society to replace them with my cat. Those criminals have done more to damage Americans than Al Queda could ever dream. It's no "masterful piece of central banking" for Gentle Ben to print up another billion to bail out bankers at expense of the poor. Bendover says that "average Americans who save dollars are unaffected by the deval-- (caught himself) decline of the dollar." Bullshit. And not even plausible-sounding bullshit, like Greenspan's. The only difficult thing about central banking is coming up with the fresh lies all the time, and revamping your stupid economic theories about "conundrums" and "global savings gluts" and the like to misdirect blame away from yourself, earning the glowing admiration of the buffoons in congress whose projects you finance with inflation. It's no wonder they can't even find 7 rats to do it, because rats know a sinking ship when they smell one, and if there is one thing a politician knows how to do, it's push off the problem to later generations, pass the buck, and cover their ass.
http://www.peakoil.com/post677593.html#677593
BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
patience wrote:
This will get ugly. Fast.
http://www.peakoil.com/post677881.html#677881 _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Nothing is truly sustainable. In the fullness of time, every star in the universe will die.
Before that, the sun will die.
So the question becomes sustainable over what period of time?
A few decades works for me.
What I like about Jack is that a lot of what Jack says is what many people should admit to themselves. Some, like Jack apparently could live with that admission but others might reflect a bit.
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:59 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Pfish wrote:
People are pissed that the price is high. I have said this before and I will say it again, when people come in with a different opinion than yours, don't chase them out. They are the people you want on this board.
http://www.peakoil.com/post685816.html#685816 _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
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These economic reports, at least the ones that are publicly stated, have been tinkered with and watered down over the past few years so that the numbers will look good in the media. This is like doing a beautiful landscape painting on your car windshield. Looks good, but does not help you steer, and does not help you do any future planning.
Pup _________________ Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
C'mon man, who're you gonna believe?
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