Reply #38: Railing about the inequities in the current system... [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

... do very little to change its reality. The fact is that we live in a society in which we have come to depend upon cheap fossil fuels for just about everything in our daily lives.

Do I think that this is a wise course of action? No. Do I deny that it is the reality under which I live, regardless of whether or not I like it? No, again. Given this, it behooves me to look at how different things, like the price of oil, would affect the world in which I live as opposed to how they would affect some idealized alternative.

The very fact that you would label me as a free-trade advocate is quite laughable, friend. Obviously you have never read any of the posts I have ever made regarding trade, which was the issue on which I initially cut my teeth as an activist. I am very much a proponent of localized means of production and moving away from the whole ideas of economies of massive scale.