Reply #4: I don't think they have as much power as they want us to believe anymore. [View All]

[NEOBuckeye]

They never did. Any administration that resorts to rule by fear and intimidation is inherently weak and extremely vulnerable to demolition, once the people realize that they've been duped big time, and fight back. This will be the absolute ruin of Bush, Cheney and the Republican Party. The trick for them is, how much longer can they keep the "Big Lie" going?

But make no mistake. America is going to suffer very dearly for entrusting Bush and his Cabal of Fools with the guardianship of our future. ALL of our futures.

As for Peak Oil, production is stretched to the limit as it is. The Saudis promised an increase in their production a couple of months ago, but so far, nothing has happened. It would appear that they may have reached peak production of oil.

And if things couldn't get any more interesting, Mexico's biggest oil field and the world's second largest has also peaked.
http://www.energybulletin.net/4574.html

What is so bad about this? Well, if economic growth depends upon a cheap, constant and easily accessible supply of energy, when that supply becomes more expensive, less constant and less easily accessible, economic growth slows down, can grind to a halt and even "go into reverse" (i.e. layoffs, business shut down, and in extreme cases, economic collapse and depression).

The problem for us, then, is not the approximate date when the Oil runs out, but when economic growth is no longer possible due to a decline or drop in oil production. That day will come much, much sooner than the day when the very last drop of oil is slurped up out of the Earth. The truth is that we will never run out of oil. We will just run out of the cheap, easily accessible oil that has in an a devestatingly shortsighted way become the quintessential ingredient to powering our infrastructure.

It's very telling that the Bushes/NeoConservatives are plotting another war, when they really should be breaking the news to the American people that the age of unrestricted economic growth is over. Better, legitimate leaders would already be unleashing the "Manhattan Project" of energy.