Reply #4: nice analogy [View All]

[RainDog]

from what I heard on the news tonight - some pbs news thing - Obama has people who are talking up things like the Peace Corp and America Corp - I wonder if they'll be current equivalents of WPA and other orgs that worked to create jobs when the markets failed in the 30s.

I'd much prefer a Peace Army over a World War. Peace Army and birth control.. LOL... as in, I'd rather have smaller families than war to keep populations sustainable. (oh, and please, I hope no one takes this to mean any sort of central family planning, blahblah - I know it's too much to expect rational behavior all the time, but when it is really in someone's interest of survival to have fewer children, maybe that will have the same effect on births as did 4 buck a gallon gas on SUV sales.

I'm sure others have already wondered about this - but with gas prices so low - I wonder if this won't encourage people to use more fossil fuel and thus accelerate the exhaustion of accessible oil. The lower price of gas should help with food prices, for the short term at least.