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- craighoxton, on 11/12/2008, -2/+66And after the Oil Crunch...the Water Crunch...
- Akairenn, on 11/13/2008, -2/+65And after the Water Crunch, the Captain Crunch.
- EssPii, on 11/13/2008, -2/+22Perhaps you should try to reduce your dependence on the barrel... instead of feeding the addiction with a finite resource?
- rcook18, on 11/13/2008, -1/+19There are a ton of skilled jobs manufacturing, assembling and maintaining tens of thousands of wind turbines.
- jerrycan, on 11/13/2008, -8/+25Wake me up before the Nestle Crunch. Milk chocolate is scrumptious, when it crunches. That's why I love Nestle Crunch.
- pstroll, on 11/13/2008, -5/+22Let's see:
Global Warming
Credit Crunch
Peak Oil
... What next? a zombie apocalypse!! - reyalp, on 11/13/2008, -2/+18Better buy a bicycle!
...and hope you don't get a flat tire. - nextekcarl, on 11/13/2008, -0/+15One can only hope.
- Goochman, on 11/13/2008, -1/+14Interesting - once all the Oil Speculators at Lehmans lost their jobs the price of Oil has come down...............
- scabbers, on 11/13/2008, -3/+16My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -5/+17And China says thank you for those jobs.
- dcmjzero, on 11/13/2008, -2/+13I have always found it amazing that the largest crop in the U.S. is turf. The amount of resources it requires- water, fertilizer, gas (for mowing)- is disturbing to think about. Talk about misplaced priorities.
- smugmotha, on 11/12/2008, -7/+17and after the party, it's the waffle house
- IphtashuFitz, on 11/13/2008, -1/+10Bush is still president until January 20. Obama can't do squat until then.
- eastwood24, on 11/13/2008, -2/+10dang it you beat me to the punchline, now i'll have to delete my message and think of something else witty....thanks a lot punk.
- doctechnical, on 11/13/2008, -2/+10Yes, we should be building nuclear reactors by the *****. I hope Pres. Elect Obama is ready to get rid of the insanely restrictive (and useless) legislation that makes reactors so damned expensive, and initiates a major "Nuke here, nuke now" program.
- JoeMerchant, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7
I haven't seen any Chinese working on the installations in North Texas, Mexicans yes, Chinese, no. - jerrycan, on 11/13/2008, -1/+8I thought we were going to Sizzlers?
- schnikies79, on 11/13/2008, -3/+10How about we do both? Conserve and drill?
- exscind, on 11/13/2008, -1/+8Analysts predict the Cap'n Cruch will take place, but only after the Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
- 1smartguy, on 11/13/2008, -2/+9The water crunch has been slowly growing in the background for a while. My community is in the midst of one right now. On the bright side, my community has banned turf lawns on all new construction.
- slantyeyed, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7the oil crunch has been on since way before this year's credit crunch
- Chordonblue, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7If there aren't better battery technologies by 2030 we're doing it wrong. The need for oil should eventually diminish, not increase, in that time scale.
- phogasmic, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7The Apocalypse doesn't feel as bad as I thought it would.
- malex, on 11/13/2008, -1/+8I never quite understood why reasonable, common sense measures to conserve gasoline that everyone can participate in were met with such derision by the McCain supporters. Can you explain, Akchrs?
Bear in mind, I'm just asking for a simple explanation. Debating or throwing insults won't actually be helpful, seeing as the election is already over. - Tetrator, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6True, but unfortunately, we can run out of POTABLE water.
- positron, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6In some places they'll throw your ass in jail for NOT watering the lawn.
- katagana, on 11/13/2008, -6/+12Burn baby BURN!
I hope the oil runs out sooner rather than later, the more pressure, the more solutions! - traveler1217, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6Hah-hah! Dugg you up for resurrecting a prophetically relevant relic from the past!
- eastwood24, on 11/13/2008, -1/+7...which will shortly be followed by the population crunch.
- geekee, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6Apparently, no one here noticed without easy credit, oil demand has dropped sharply.
This is bad for alternative energy, since the economic incentive just vanished. Now we'll need to rely on broke govts. Not holding by breath. - nebben, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5But not to worry. Scientists believe that given enough time, the Captain Crunch and Cinnamon Toast Crunch will soften, especially with milk.
- beesaretasty, on 11/13/2008, -1/+6When it is economically viable, the oil companies will use the land they already have. Beyond that, reinstating the offshore drilling ban would not be a bad idea. From the quote below, you will see that prices in this dire prediction will still be lower than they were this summer. Why increase investments in antiquated technology when you can fund the development of the new technologies which will fuel the planet beyond 2030? I think it is pretty short-sighted to think that increased drilling is the answer to our problems.
"The IEA's latest World Energy Outlook predicts that global energy demand will increase 45% between now and 2030 and oil prices will rise to $200 a barrel by then - or $120 at 2007 prices." - Hetman, on 11/13/2008, -2/+7Good. Everyone always talks about how we need alternative fuel. Well unless oil becomes really expensive we will never have alternative fuels. It is the best way to spur development into alernative fuels.
- jshhmr, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5Agreed on the nuclear power. Thorium is safe and clean nuclear energy.
- Harabeck, on 11/13/2008, -3/+8Key word there was "skilled". You have to go to India for that, they have several techinical universities harder to get into than MIT.
- chalkboy, on 11/13/2008, -2/+7It has rained almost non stop the last 15 days. Water will never be in shortage where I live. Water shortages are geographical. You should not build a city in the middle of a desert.
- secrity, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5I also really like Waffle House, and I hope that they don't end up closing -- they are having cash flow "issues".
- Hetman, on 11/13/2008, -3/+8It simple. You tax gas until it is high enough to make it profitable for private industries to create alternative fuels.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5just go green lets stop killing people for gas
kthx - GoneGreen, on 11/13/2008, -4/+9In 15 years only the super rich will fly on airplanes... enjoy traveling while you can afford it.
- boneit, on 11/13/2008, -1/+6@doctechnical, does the cost mean none are getting built, or is it just a backlog to get them signed off by the powers that be? My local power company got clearance to start charging us for a nuclear plant they don't have, and will take at least ten years to deliver, assuming they build it. That's right, their customers have to foot the bill for their needs now. Here's the local rag's take on it today:
http://tampabay.com/news/business/energy/article90 ...
For the money involved, they could saturate the area with PV solar on customers' roofs, after all, we do get a fair amount of sun in FL (about 80F outside right now). - dieboldcracy, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4you r currect sir. only the market will force fuel alternatives
- bobsacks, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4Waffle House has got a bad rap. I love me some Waffle House but every single other person I know HATES it.
- groo68, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4seriously.
- grumpyrain, on 11/14/2008, -0/+4And printer ink is $8000 per gallon. Oil at $4 per gallon is still cheaper than bottled water. The problem is *not* the price per gallon, it is the price we need to pay to travel a distance of X. It is this price that people care about. I wouldn't care if oil cost $20/gallon if my car was getting 200mpg.
The point made was that additional drilling for oil in the US was never going to have any bigger impact on your weekly fuel bill than keeping your tires at correct pressure. It is a white elephant. - malex, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4If by "solutions" you mean mass starvation and a global state of war, possibly nuclear war, over the last remaining resources, then you might be in luck.
Personally, as a father, I'm hoping for a less violent transition. - pgoetz, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4"Obama's tire inflation comment, while good advice, in the context of gas price, was silly, ie: 'I just inflated my tires to the proper PSI, and gas is still four bucks a gallon!'"
I'm going to try not to be rude, but you truly are pretty stupid, just like most Republicans. Properly inflated tires will allow you to travel more miles per gallon, EFFECTIVELY reducing the price of gas. It will also mean reducing the amount of a gas you use per trip, which will COLLECTIVELY reduce the amount of oil we must import. Is it really that hard to understand? - Grin23, on 11/14/2008, -0/+3Which one? the cereal guy or the hacker?
- borez, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3No, it's being realistic.
Look around you mate, virtually everything you see, drive, type on, wear, spend, eat, wipe your arse on, has a connection to oil, from manufacturing, to shipping, to farming, to pharmaceuticals... all oil, we are a society based around oil.
Now you can digg me down all you ***** want, but it won't change the fact that oil is irreplaceable within our society. We could seriously downsize and go back to basics as a species, but this will only happen when we have no choice and the oil is all gone. -
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