[Red Dog #1]

In the mean time...we're sitting on top of enough oil to last the US 300 YEARS (really).

http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/The_U.S._s_Untapped_Bounty_080630.html

As for coal, we only have 240 years left

http://www.coalcandothat.com/content.php?view=403

Whose says superstition and witch doctors are a thing of the past?

[truthguy]

In the mean time...we're sitting on top of enough oil to last the US 300 YEARS (really).

You may be right BUT we are talking about electricity here and we only get about 2% of our electricity from oil and most of that is for portable power and just a few peaker plants. We don't wish and don't ever want to go back to using oil for generating electricity.

[rlmorel]

The problem is, you and I both know there are more than enough sources of energy on US soil (and elsewhere) but if it is rendered unavailable due to deliberate action on the part of governments around the world, then the shortage will be real.

That is precisely what we are seeing.

Deliberate action on the part of the governments. Sounds like conspiracy theory stuff, right?

But here we are. I still have trouble getting my head around this, but I have crossed the Rubicon.