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mos6507 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:03 pm

Chuckmak wrote:

*grabs a handful of some of joe's popcorn*

Stop eating popcorn. We need more corn for our gas tanks.

Anthrobus · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:06 pm

Eli wrote:

It is always weird to watch these things unfold, especially after talking about this very scenario for years.

Food riots, oil spikes, financial collapse and then as we know war.

I feel weird too. It is like being among the crew of the film "das Boot" when their submarine was bombed at Gibraltar and going down. The chief engineer has to report to the captain that the boat is sinking and that he can't do anything more about it. All they can do is to watch the depth gauge climb and to listen for the creaking of metal and the bolts breaking.

We talked about this for years now yet i must rub my eyes and still can't believe that the world is actually entering an new, possibly cruel era.

emersonbiggins · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:07 pm

misterno wrote:

-I am gonna bang my girl tonight

LOL @ this guy

We're never too far displaced from the jungle.

canis_lupus · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:11 pm

Gandalf_the_White wrote:

Super spike immenent, get ready for rationing if the prices are not allowed to rice at the pump. We should be somehwere in the $4.25 range for a national average by Memorial Day.

Gandalf, everyone who drives a diesel is paying $4.20 already, including truck drivers. Methinks I'd have to be $5 + before we see rioting in the streets of the US of A.

It's like the frog-in-a-pot-of-water thing...prices will continue to rise at this slow rate and we won't realize we're cooked until it's over.

Methinks.

Eli · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:17 pm

Anthrobus Great Film,

We knew before we left port that the trip would end badly.

dohboi · **Joined:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 2096

Glad I just got an all electric car. Maybe it can pay for itself if I rent it out?

emersonbiggins · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:23 pm

canis_lupus wrote:

Gandalf_the_White wrote:

Super spike immenent, get ready for rationing if the prices are not allowed to rice at the pump. We should be somehwere in the $4.25 range for a national average by Memorial Day.

Gandalf, everyone who drives a diesel is paying $4.20 already, including truck drivers. Methinks I'd have to be $5 + before we see rioting in the streets of the US of A.

It's like the frog-in-a-pot-of-water thing...prices will continue to rise at this slow rate and we won't realize we're cooked until it's over.

Methinks.

No kidding - I drive a diesel Jetta, and it costs me almost $60 to fill it up.

Thank goodness I get 40 MPG - 10.7 cents/mile for fuel.

Compare this with 16.9 cents/mile for the wife's 4Runner, even with regular at 70 cents cheaper than diesel. Diesel would need to be north of $6/gal to break even with my gasser, if gas stayed the same price (dubious assumption).

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:25 pm

Eli wrote:

...We knew before we left port that the trip would end badly.

Yes, but we didn't think it would turn out to be such a short voyage. All this shit was supposed to hit the fan some time off in the future.

But, of course, as we've been saying, it appears that the fast-forward button is stuck, and nobody can pry it loose...

vision-master · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:30 pm

Zardoz wrote:

Eli wrote:

...We knew before we left port that the trip would end badly.

Yes, but we didn't think it would turn out to be such a short voyage. All this shit was supposed to hit the fan some time off in the future.

But, of course, as we've been saying, it appears that the fast-forward button is stuck, and nobody can pry it loose...

My rewind button ain't woken. :razz:

Eli · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:30 pm

Yeah the only people saying 2008 a few years back was the ulra-doomers.

3:30 pm time to get my drink on, Cheers to all of my fellow sailors on this ship of fools.

Ship of Fools

dorlomin · **Joined:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:00 am **Posts:** 1917

Anthrobus wrote:

I feel weird too. It is like being among the crew of the film "das Boot" when their submarine was bombed at Gibraltar and going down. The chief engineer has to report to the captain that the boat is sinking and that he can't do anything more about it. All they can do is to watch the depth gauge climb and to listen for the creaking of metal and the bolts breaking.

We talked about this for years now yet i must rub my eyes and still can't believe that the world is actually entering an new, possibly cruel era.

I think this little period is the foreshadowing, the recession and new big crop yields will help ease the price of oil and food later this year. It is the overture to the symphony, not the great magnus opus of schadenfrunde yet.

vision-master · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:32 pm

Eli wrote:

Yeah the only people saying 2008 a few years back was the ulra-doomers.

3:30 pm time to get my drink on, Cheers to all of my fellow sailors on this ship of fools.

The human race was dying out
No one left to scream and shout.
People walking on the moon
Smog will get you pretty soon.
Everyone was hanging out
Hanging up and hanging down
Hanging in and holding fast
Hope our little world will last.
Along came Mr. Goodtrips
Looking for a new ship.
Come on people better climb on board
Come on babe we're going home.
Ship of fools, Ship of fools.

Ferretlover · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:34 pm

canis_lupus wrote:

Gandalf_the_White wrote:

Methinks I'd have to be $5 + before we see rioting in the streets of the US of A.

I'm thinking closer to $8-10 before the large marches start.

Won't take too much complaining before rationing or martial law is enacted.
The coming winter is going to be a bear!

Gandalf_the_White · **Joined:** Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:00 am **Posts:** 178

canis_lupus wrote:

Gandalf_the_White wrote:

Super spike immenent, get ready for rationing if the prices are not allowed to rice at the pump. We should be somehwere in the $4.25 range for a national average by Memorial Day.

Gandalf, everyone who drives a diesel is paying $4.20 already, including truck drivers. Methinks I'd have to be $5 + before we see rioting in the streets of the US of A.

It's like the frog-in-a-pot-of-water thing...prices will continue to rise at this slow rate and we won't realize we're cooked until it's over.

Methinks.

We'll see, you might not have to wait too long to find out.

Pops · **Posted:** Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:58 pm

Eli wrote:

Yeah the only people saying 2008 a few years back was the ulra-doomers.

Yea, I thought we would be in a trough around now.

Turns out, as usual, my celluloid ball was a little clouded.

So is this thread prompting anyone to do any more than waste the boss's time and bandwidth?

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