Re: $5.00 Diesel - time to put her up on blocks!

You are going to have to take the train to work, or an environmentally
sensible bus. Without abundant, cheap oil, we are going to have to
get to an economy that does not move two tons of glass and steel along
with every person wherever they go. That paradigm has proved itself
unsustainable.

But we can use our imaginations and creativity to create a world that
is both sustainable and a better place to live.

That should have been obvious to everyone in the 70s, but,
unfortunately we have wasted 30 years we could have been transitioning
to a sustainable future. But there is adequate time and fossil fuel
to build the economy we need.

I don't know if this is correct or not, I doubt it actually, but I
read yesterday that we are importing up to 80% of our oil now. With
manufacturing shipped overseas in search of cheap labor and no
environmental regulation and faith in the dollar evaporating fast, how
are we going to continue to import $1.5 - $2.5 billion worth of oil a
day?

At some point the tankers are all going to head for China where all
the value added goods are being produced. And that day may not be far
off. Diesel is $5.29 at the local station here in California right
now. We have to question how long our economy, which is based on
credit, can sustain that sort of drain. The "stimulus" money the
government is borrowing from places like China and sending out to
people who filed taxes will not even cover a few months worth of the
extra energy costs we all are incurring.
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