Posted on 04/16/2008 10:47:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“In global warming terms, the implications are nothing short of catastrophic: “
Stopped reading right there.
“Stopped reading right there”
Me too.
We are allowing the carbon credit energy rationing cartel to evolve.
Algore is pushing his carbon cartel to create a fictional comodity. (ie by someone buying “credit” for my uneaten ice cream, that someone will become less fat) A vicarious living credit.
The point is though, only “some” will be allowed to have an unfettered energy lifestyle while the serfs do their slave work. it is the death of social mobility.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!
I don't see a problem with these foreign interests buying enormous stakes in U.S. companies that are teetering on the brink of insolvency.
In fact, this article is filled with a bunch of paradoxes of this sort that make me question just about every point that has been raised.
““Stopped reading right there””
I skipped the whole article.
Went right to the comments. It was much more enertaining, (in this case).
Stopped reading right there.
I’m glad I read your post 1st before reading a POS glowar article.
America has gone from leading the world, to being told by the world what to do under this president and his lack of action on removing all the government barriers that stop Americans from getting and making what we need in our own country.
This cat is so busy grinding his eco/peace-studies/socialist ax that he can’t even keep his own propaganda straight. The US is an energy deficit state? Yeah, right. The largest proven coal reserves in the world exist in, oh, right, that would be the US. The US also has substantial supplies of uranium ore, as do Australia and Canada. Much rather do business with the Aussies and our flash-frozen neighbors to the north, anyway.
I call BS on this guy.
Al Gore has been flying around, having meetings (sales pitches) where the world’s top moneymakers have been sold on investing in some fantastic new technology.
Some of this technology is solid and will just get better and better.
Some is junk.
But Al is selling ‘futures’ in it.
Forcing the price of gas up in the US to ensure that buyers will be standing in line waiting to purchase these new technologies, as they start hitting the market.
OPEC is slowing production to keep prices high.
They profit, and they are investing in these new technologies that they are going to sell us, because we can’t afford their old product.
We get what we want, and need, eventually, and the elite get ‘richer’.
But, it has always been this way. Someone plays Al Gore. Someone plays George Soros. Different name, same game.
“From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Klare also resides on the boards of directors of Human Rights Watch, and the Arms Control Association. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, Tom’s Dispatch, Mother Jones, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Analysis of US threats against Iran
In November 2005, Klare alleged that a major factor motivating the George W. Bush administration to attack Iran would be its desire to distract attention from domestic political difficulties and to increase popularity for the President. US popular support for Bush increased by about 10% when the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and only dropped back to its previous level several months later.[1]
Its just soooo convenient that “global warming” becomes force fed just as invaluable resource such as US coal becomes desirable once again. The only thing that makes sense is that the countries infrastructure and public assets have long ago been pledged, sold, and plundered.
Maybe it’s not so much the price of gas, but the value of the dollar.
Of late, I’m concluding that inflation is waaaaaay higher than officially reported. Roughly speaking ... M3 jumped 50% in 4 years; gas prices jumped 70% in 4 years; Euros jumped 50% in 4 years; and so on. Methinks that on the whole, it’s not that things are more expensive, it’s that the dollars paying for them are worth much less.
This list is totally bogus — Canada has (at least) the second largest oil reserves.
It seems that their rankings excluded oil sands from the reserves — those figures are “no longer operative”. Here are better statistics:
For oil:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html
For natural gas:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872966.html
And from “Energy Information Administration” — U.S. Department of Energy:
These alarmists never seem to mention one obvious fact: where does the money go that net energy exporters receive? Answer: western banks, and then western construction companies. Result: the money comes right back to us for investment and employment.
Point two: everyone knows the future is nuclear. There will always be cars, it's just that they'll be running on battery power. Maybe not as much power/range/fun as gasoline, but personal mobility & our dispersed suburban lifestyle will be retained.
Point three: everyone also knows the future of agriculture is genetically engineered food crops. Say goodbye to huge amounts of fertilizer, energy, etc and say hello to calorie/protein packed "food".
The world may end up looking a lot different, but people will still be able to move around, work & eat just like as we do today.
I didn’t even get to that point.
Canada has the 2nd largest oil reserves in the World.
What else did they get wrong?
What happened to California? I’d be willing to bet my paycheck that at one time, Cali was a net energy exporter “back in the day”, they have tremendous natural resources.
Americas problems are sadly, mostly self-inflicted! Not by the People, mind you - but a carefully cultivated and they are way-ahead-of-you road blocks set up at every turn. Bad cess to all of them.
What a bunch of drivel. The U.S. has more coal reserves than Saudi Arabia has oil, plus we got oil off the coasts, in Alaska, and in the Rocky Mountains as shale oil. In addition, there’s the tar sands in Canada. We got plenty of energy, and nuclear capacity too, if the Democrats and tree-huggers would get out of the way.
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