How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
MrBill wrote:
Quote:
America is now paying for its decades of fiscal and monetary prolifigy. It is trapped somewhere between a decaying British Empire; having its own Japan Moment; and doing an Argentina.
Link (near end of page) _________________ We should teach our children the 4-Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rejoice.
Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 844 Location: As close as I can get to the beginning of the pipe.
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Quote:
"You need to unhinge your mental jaw like a python swallowing a pig to really take it [Peak Oil] all in.
Humanity is moving along in the cruise ship called industrial civilization and headed straight for the peak oil iceberg. What is interesting about the iceberg, though, is everything below the waterline."
Joined: Dec 02, 2005 Posts: 6276 Location: Oil-addicted Southern Californucopia
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Eli:
Quote:
"Just get back in line and eat your gruel and shut up."
His Fed thread _________________ "Thank you for attending the oil age. We're going to scrape what we can out of these tar pits in Alberta and then shut down the machines and turn out the lights. Goodnight." - seldom_seen
Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 844 Location: As close as I can get to the beginning of the pipe.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
"When Hollywood remakes the Grapes of Wrath and you identify
with one of the sexier pickers and the mobile lifestyle, you can
guess the leadership has snapped out of it and is pointing
the way forward again. I'll be busy riding my donkey to the water
war with three lizards drying for jerky on my hat and a bag of
rattlesnakes to use as grenades."
hornofhubris hoping for better days _________________ "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." --Patrick Henry
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Aaron wrote:
Not famous quotes... lol.
Member quotes...
Dune
Here, at last
I meet the sun
—all my fears
and it's so desolate
—vacant, and cruel
earthen, yet shifting
mocking each step
each breath
each collapse
and resurrection
and vile life surrounds
feeding on moisture
like packs of
sucking scavengers
and not 'till now
as I drag limb
after limb do I
see them
as they dance—anticipate
my offering
out here—on the spine
of the desert
along the dune
Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: zombie horde wonderland
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
mikeflecheer wrote:
Coal mioners have tons of stories of things they find in the coal, necklaces and beads and everything, a huge flood s1quished up all the trees and bad people and compressed them and they heated and coalified.
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Tyler_JC wrote:
WTF are they smoking at the CPI Calculator Headquarters????
Maybe they are attempting to factor in reductions in consumption into the calculations. But that seems a little bit like saying "food prices fell because everyone starved to death".
THAT is funny!!!
and sad...
but mostly funny!!!!!
http://www.peakoil.com/post637879.html#637879 _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
roccman wrote:
Tyler_JC wrote:
WTF are they smoking at the CPI Calculator Headquarters????
Maybe they are attempting to factor in reductions in consumption into the calculations. But that seems a little bit like saying "food prices fell because everyone starved to death".
Agreed _________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Aaron wrote:
roccman wrote:
Tyler_JC wrote:
WTF are they smoking at the CPI Calculator Headquarters????
Maybe they are attempting to factor in reductions in consumption into the calculations. But that seems a little bit like saying "food prices fell because everyone starved to death".
Congrats on the new 2b arrival...hope mom is well.
Too lazy to search for the right thread.
Merge at will.
Keep well. _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
roccman wrote:
Aaron wrote:
roccman wrote:
Tyler_JC wrote:
WTF are they smoking at the CPI Calculator Headquarters????
Maybe they are attempting to factor in reductions in consumption into the calculations. But that seems a little bit like saying "food prices fell because everyone starved to death".
Congrats on the new 2b arrival...hope mom is well.
Too lazy to search for the right thread.
Merge at will.
Keep well.
Thanks Rocc _________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
Specop_007 wrote:
With the current crop of candidates it really feels like a case of "Do I want to slam my dick in the Left door or slam it in the Right door."
Either way its gonna hurt.
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic38904.html _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
threadbear wrote:
Why on earth is medicaid and medicare so screwed up?
The same reason that US soldiers are getting killed in Iraq escorting convoys of empty Haliburton trucks all over the place. The same reason that it took FEMA a week to figure out there was an emergency in New Orleans, when every person in the country not employed by the government knew it was going to happen two days beforehand.
Nepotism, corruption, ineptitude, self-serving bureaucracy. It's the end result forcing 300,000,000 people under a single government which is then selected based on popularity. Nobody cares if anything gets done, as long as they look good for the TV cameras. They can pretend that they're providing healthcare coverage for poor people. They're not. A few doctors are taking care of the poor people out of the goodness of their own hearts, but the congressmen can pretend they are on Meet the Press and that's all that really matters. _________________ In other words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite.-from Full Metal Jacket
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes"
"And when the history is written, it'll be said that we lived in a safer country, and a more hopeful world, because George Bush was President of these United States."
_________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis
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