Posted on 11/23/2011 3:45:39 PM PST by pabianice
My wife and I just watched a History Channel show, "After Oil." It is one of the most unintentionally funny shows we have seen in a long time.
The premise is that, one day, all the undrilled oil in the world vansihes. Not used up, just vanished. Perhaps it has a temper tantrum; perhaps it is just out of town on a trip. Perhaps it has been stolen by aliens. However, this fantasy is to be taken seriously.
The world after running out of oil or after some catastrophe has been a staple of science fiction since H.G. Wells. The conclusion is almost always grim: our society ends and a new, inevitably more violent and more primitive depopulated one takes its place. There is no disagreement about this among the sane.
Unless you are carrying water for Obama and the Greens. The History Channel predicts that, aside from some minor inconveniences and regretable mass deaths, the world would, instead, slide almost seamlessly into the wildest LSD fantasy of the tree-kissers. You see, the world would simply change to a biofuel-based economy after the world plants endless new, shiny, non-polluting algae and corn and soybean farms. Millions of light-weight, all carbon-fiber electric cars and trucks and railroad trains will appear to reestablish trade and commerce. New York's Central Park will be transformed into an 800-acre farm to feed the city. Airships will glide through the air, powered by -- you guessed it -- biofuel and advanced batteries. After an unfortunate die-out of city populations (the billions dead never actually mentioned), the New U.S. "would resemble 19th century America, built along rail lines" supplied by electric trains traveling at hundreds of miles per hour. "After the end of oil, the air, water, and land will no longer be polluted!" and the Earth will breathe a great, sigh of happy relief. In all, a Green's masterbatory fantasy and a total sell-out to Obama and his base.
I suggest you watch it after at least one manhattan. Better make it two. For it's to laugh!
And have a Happy Thanksgiving with your factory farm-grown turkey, delivered by an oil-burning truck to a supermarket that consumes enormous amounts of electricity, driven home in your Klondike, your meal prepared in an all electric kitchen, in a houseful of friends wearing oil-based clothing, all warmed by oil and watching the game on the biggest TV you can find!
The other day I ran across the History Channel online and they were doing a thing on Mt. Rushmore. Having just gone there I was interested so started watching. They were trying to prove the man who carved it was a white supremist. Sickening.
This just confirms my realization that the only real TV left is WWF Raw. Go figger’...
“The premise is that, one day, all the undrilled oil in the world vansihes. Not used up, just vanished.”
Clearly this is the fault of ancient aliens.
Isn’t it about time for the History Channel’s annual war on Christmas?
The steam train could make a huge comeback.
No wonder kids are neurotic. After seeing all the apocalyptic shows like this and “Earth after People” and such who would have any hope?
Without a vision the people perish.
I sat around a table of Austin...ok ok Austin! professionals and asked; “What causes global warming?”
Right. Not a one of them said;
“The sun.”
Took about 8 -10 minutes too, there were only 5-6 of em. lol!
I schooled my face to keep em talkin too. It’s on the list of the longest 10 minutes of my life...up there.
Oh, man, I tried to watch their “overview” of American History...”The Story of Us”....rife with Hussein-think.
Liberals giving commentary on a history that could’ve been written by Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn.
I got about halfway through the second episode and turned the damn thing off. Truly disgusting.
Mr. Wild hair. My wife would shoot me if I left for work looking like that!
as long as coal doesn’t vanish like the oil. lol.
Unlike yourself, I watch AP to see animals eating other animals.
History Channel is a Left Wing NBC channel pretending to be “factual”. I do like Storage Wars, however.
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