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.
Joined: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 3626 Location: 3 miles NW of Champoeg, Republic of Cascadia
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
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This is problem #1. 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.
Pup55 _________________ Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
C'mon man, who're you gonna believe?
Joined: Jun 14, 2008 Posts: 81 Location: With one foot in ascent and the other in descent
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
"Capitalism does not judge between Paris Hilton's use of fuel to have lunch in London versus the application of those BTU's to build solar panels for a sustainable future. It allots the BTUs to those able to afford them, regardless of the opportunity cost."
Imagine the surface of the earth like the skin on a teenagers face. It seeps oil all over the place, except in a few places it gets trapped under a plugged pore, and it builds pressure until its about to pop.
The oil industry has popped all of the big zits on the worlds face, now it must go and dig out the blackheads and do face peels.
_________________ “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The time has come for men to act like men; and for women, well, to act a lot more like men."
-Ma Cur
Imagine the surface of the earth like the skin on a teenagers face. It seeps oil all over the place, except in a few places it gets trapped under a plugged pore, and it builds pressure until its about to pop.
The oil industry has popped all of the big zits on the worlds face, now it must go and dig out the blackheads and do face peels.
I think this is a first Cur.. a member trying to bump himself off the front page.
Actually I wish there was a quote that said just that. Something that expressed the genuine nature of a member who's selfless enough to put content before ego. A sincere person who is dedicated to simple, human truth.
That's at least as good as the acne analogy huh?
_________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4351 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
TheDude wrote:
One thing we like about this site is that it's largely free from partisan yawnfests.
http://www.peakoil.com/post694332.html#694332 _________________ "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
Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 13190 Location: naive idiot fantasy world
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:01 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Snik wrote:
Back on track here. Whether we're all going to die from a terrible disease, or starve to death or whatever, we'll still want to be able to drive to work over the next few decades without having to mortgage our homes to do it.
Drilling. I'm not going to sit here and debate the finer points of what is out there to be found or not found in the way of oil and gas reserves. For over a century we have been proving people wrong in field after field after field. The reserves we've been able to get out of the ground have exceeded original calculations over and over again. We have found and produced oil and gas from places nobody thought we could, places where people didn't think there was even a possibility it existed. The vast majority of the oil and gas reserves in the world were found by American oil companies....American people.
People in the oil and gas industry in this country are some of the boldest, most innovative, most technologically advanced in the world. They have risked their livelihood, and, yes, their lives to get oil and gas out of the ground. They have a passion about what they do that is second to none, a passion that transends the monetary gain they get from success.
There is no other industry I know of where this country is as dominant as it is in oil and gas exploration.
All I have to say is JUST GET THE HECK OUT OF OUR WAY!. That's all we are asking.
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
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BlisteredWhippet:
" I am not a hope merchant. I cannot tell you how far and wide I've looked for hope. There is no hope... Don't ask how I manage, at the fringe, walking between the raindrops. I start the morning at gun-to-the-head suicide level and work my way up. "
Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 13190 Location: naive idiot fantasy world
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Dezakin wrote:
The humans=yeast thing works if the petri dish is the universe and the sugar is the stars. We'll expand untill we can't. But yeast, while durable and profligate with reproduction, aren't technological and are stuck where the environment is kind enough to let yeast live.
Humans bend the environment to their wishes, and humans learn.
Hey wait a minute... my dad said that to me when I was a kid. I still use the phrase all the time... I think it ought to be attributed to CarlinsDarlinsDad first
Joined: Jun 14, 2008 Posts: 81 Location: With one foot in ascent and the other in descent
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:31 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
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"Modern civilization is like a 1970s-era custom van with an airbrushed mural of a great city on the side and a bumper sticker that says "If it feels good do it!", except that when the van doors open, instead of the scent of sinsemilla, a cloud of exhaust from fossil fuel burning drifts out."
Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 1198 Location: Central NC
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
MrBean wrote:
Homesteader wrote:
So what is "really becoming self-reliant and sustainable" specifically?
Forging their own metals? Producing their own pharmaceuticals? Performing surgery? Producing their own electronics? Manufacturing the replacement parts for their machinery?
In short: yes.
Link: http://www.peakoil.com/post705137.html#705137 _________________ "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…"
Sir Winston Churchill
Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5715 Location: Body in OK, Heart in TX
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
smallpoxgirl wrote:
America became a powerful nation because the whole world knew we'd rape and murder your grandmother to get 20 pounds of bananas. All this nanny-baby business of cowering in fear at the thought of someone with a box cutter....it's not going to serve us well in the years to come.
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