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Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
The [socially progressive] Canadian/ Agora Cosmopolitan, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ^ | 12 January 2008 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 01/16/2008 3:45:36 PM PST by dufekin

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To: dufekin
Let's call this "agenda" a plan hatched in a pessimist's worst-case scenario.

Agenda? I was thinking more like a "manifesto".

21 posted on 01/16/2008 4:06:50 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Lawyer Jay Grodner stands accused of keying a Marine's car because he hates the military.)
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To: Brilliant

I want all of us to survive whatever calamity may come, including unborn babies, but excluding Islamofascist terrorists.


22 posted on 01/16/2008 4:10:07 PM PST by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: La Enchiladita

Straw-bale construction? What a fire hazard (when dry)! Not tornado-proof either. And turns moldy and decomposes if it gets wet.


23 posted on 01/16/2008 4:12:14 PM PST by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: dufekin

On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane through the sugar cane, he was looking for his liking.
As he roamed along he sang a song of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay for many a day, and he won’t need any money

Oh the buzzin’ of the bees in the cigarette trees near the soda water fountain,
At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the Big Rock Candy Mountains

There’s a lake of gin we can both jump in, and the handouts grow on bushes
In the new-mown hay we can sleep all day, and the bars all have free lunches
Where the mail train stops and there ain’t no cops, and the folks are tender-hearted
Where you never change your socks and you never throw rocks,
And your hair is never parted


24 posted on 01/16/2008 4:12:39 PM PST by razorback-bert (Remember that amateurs built the Ark while professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: La Enchiladita
I would think FReepers would admire “off the grid” living.

Only if it's done voluntarily, rather than coreced by dystopia-worshipping Marxists...

25 posted on 01/16/2008 4:13:01 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: dufekin
restore maritime shipping based on wind — yes, sailing ships. It’s for real. Lots to do here

These people are certifiably out of their freaking minds. They want to put the world back to the 15th century. They have lost their freaking, what little they had, minds.

26 posted on 01/16/2008 4:13:27 PM PST by RetiredArmy (I AM THROUGH HOLDING MY NOSE TO VOTE FOR RINOS. NO FREAKING MORE.)
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To: dufekin
This clown would have us living in caves with a hammer and sickle flying above our subsistence farming plots. The elite will travel by horse while the rest walk around dodging road apples. Communists are big on causing and managing scarcity. The current world population is very dependent on food grown with fossil fuel based fertilizers and fossil fuel powered machinery to harvest and deliver the food. Wipe out the oil supply and we quickly become a 3rd world economy. The rest of the world follows us into the abyss.
27 posted on 01/16/2008 4:16:43 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: dufekin

The black cold bleak heart of a liberal revealed again. It is all doom and gloom with these people.


28 posted on 01/16/2008 4:18:13 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Myrddin

And this clown happens to endorse John Edwards, but Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama endorse that very future for us. And they intend to force it upon future generations through Kyoto-style treaties with every nation on earth that no succeeding president could abrogate evermore. Our economy will implode under the next Administration, and we must survive in and manage that implosion as happily as we can. For the average American, life never again will get as easy, pleasurable, and prosperous as it was last year. If a Democrat wins in November, I foresee four to eight successive years of almost incessant economic contraction.


29 posted on 01/16/2008 4:21:56 PM PST by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: dufekin

hey sheeple, the future is now - lots of people are post oil RIGHT NOW - and its as easy to install as a gas dryer and the payback is 3mos.

http://forum.iburncorn.com/viewtopic.php?t=6499


30 posted on 01/16/2008 4:22:10 PM PST by spanalot (*)
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To: Brilliant
Why not just reduce the population by 75% and avoid the problem altogether?

What would that do besides eliminate oil, food, and everything else from the supermarket shelves?

31 posted on 01/16/2008 4:24:18 PM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: dufekin
This obsession with keeping the cars running at all costs could really prove fatal.

No need to read further. The author is completely detached from reality.

32 posted on 01/16/2008 4:25:31 PM PST by TigersEye (Crusty is as Crusty does.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I like my car because I cna drive where I want to when I want to and not depend on someone else. It’s called freedom, and the Marxists don’t like it.


33 posted on 01/16/2008 4:25:40 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: dufekin

Is this even when there is a thick layer of plaster/adobe over, and it is well-sealed? It sounds like you have experience with this...


34 posted on 01/16/2008 4:26:36 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Psalm 27)
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To: dufekin

There is only one solution to our energy future.

Never ever ever vote for a dem again.

In time, our problems will get better.


35 posted on 01/16/2008 4:27:08 PM PST by umgud (Thompson/Hunter '08)
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To: The Electrician

Voluntarily, of course!


36 posted on 01/16/2008 4:27:49 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Psalm 27)
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To: La Enchiladita

I can live “off the grid” if that is what it comes down to. I have an acre of land to plant, plenty of lead for bullets and the tools to build shelter(s), nearby rivers and an ocean to fish....Hey, why am I still working?!!! ;-)


37 posted on 01/16/2008 4:28:48 PM PST by Normal4me
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To: DLfromthedesert

In the days before the motorcar you would have a horse that could go anywhere, and if no horse you could walk anywhere. Same freedom, the car is irrelevant.


38 posted on 01/16/2008 4:29:24 PM PST by RightWhale (Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
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To: dufekin

“Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society”

Go Amish.


39 posted on 01/16/2008 4:30:13 PM PST by Grunthor (If I don't get to Carley Simon's house I'll never know if that song was about me.)
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To: RightWhale

When I work 12 hours 10 miles from where I live, what you propose is impractical. The car gives us freedom to live and work where we choose.


40 posted on 01/16/2008 4:31:25 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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