Article on gas prices

This is too much fun:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/065/ripoff0065784.htm

 

The link stops at the cash register.

I'm not saying he's not factual; I'm just tired of the pro-oil excuse-making, bend-over-and-take it America and offer thanks afterward it didn't go deeper shit put out by these people. Solve the fucking problem. That's all I wanna say. Just solve it before your comrades ruin this country.

 

So to attack

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... and who exactly is Jason from New York, New York? I wonder what connections he has to NAMBLA, BALCO and the Symbionese Liberation Army. Look, I'm not here to defend John T. Reed, never heard of him before today. His posting on gas raises some interesting points, with facts no one here seems willing to challenge. That is all.

 

A buddy north of the border sent me this one:

http://www.macleans.ca/business/economy/article.jsp?content=20080528_21002_21002

Scary, fuckin' shit.

Some dandy quotes include:
James Howard Kunstler isn't one to mince words about what's coming. "The suburbs will turn to slums, salvage yards and ruins," says the author of the book The Long Emergency. "Expensive oil will thunder through the economic system cutting a wide swath of destruction."

AND

"Our way of life depends on freight transport and the whole thing is beginning to unravel," says Richard Gilbert, a transportation consultant in Toronto and one of the authors of Transport Revolutions.

AND

"I think people will look back on the 1940s to early 2000s as an exceptional period and it will seem very strange that people would fly off to Las Vegas or Florida for the weekend, or drive their kids 20 km to play hockey and take piano lessons," says SFU's Perl. "Some people are going to have to adjust every aspect of their lives."

 

Leave it to the Canadians and Brits to write what too few here have the guts to say.

 

"I am the third revelation!"

 

So he's saying we'll turn into France?

 

Zing!

We need to develop alternate viable energy sources. Oil's obviously not enough. The money we are blowing in Iraq should be focused on education, funding, and solving this problem.