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earthworm
Location: General Area Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: Gas prices < Reply # 61 on 5/27/2008 5:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. |
| earthworm
Location: General Area Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: Gas prices < Reply # 66 on 5/28/2008 8:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | ya know.... I think I just smelled the stink of peak oil.... A sudden crash in production is unlikely unless there are other factors that contribute to it. I was thinking about this while I HAD TO ride my bike some 24 miles to school because of lack of gas money and insurance. Who are going to be the people that get hit by rising fuel costs? Not people with a disposable income. Imagine an innercity ghetto without any mobility. In cities like Los Angeles this is scary as shit. I think that is a real danger with these gas prices; that festering sections of society are going to have no escape valves, no work, no entertainment (HD sets) and outdated infrastructure. This is going to mean massive riots. In most American cities they will come as race riots. Every Major city is becoming or, more accurately, has become as rotten as New Orleans. Not that it is on the immediate horizon, but this is something foreseeable. This is a really fucking scary report as far as climate change goes (PDF) http://www.csis.or...ofconsequences.pdf">http://www.csis.or...ofconsequences.pdf And this is a horribly entertaining counter point to everything it says. I was unaware until just now that some extraterrestrial life might be free from original sin for example. (found while looking for the report) http://www.rb59.co...11_01_archive.html
| Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. |
| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
Baaaaah.
| | | Re: Gas prices < Reply # 74 on 5/31/2008 11:27 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Much hand wringing aren't the words man. It's more like scared shitless around here about the tourists. Since most of them that come here don't have a pot to piss in anyway, they just come here to avoid paying for electricity and gas by camping on the beach by the Lake Cesspool, err...Lake Champlain. My cousin's daughter has been trying to find a summer job for the past few weeks and the only place that's not scared to hire help for the summer is the local youth commission employment program through the local high school, since that's federally funded. Sam will slap me because I'm an incurable optimist and because I don't buy into everything that goes along with this Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever they want to call it. Sure, we might have had some effect on the climate changes that are going on, but it's going to take a hell of a lot more to make me believe that things are as bad as they're making them out to be. You all do realize that we're driving up our own oil prices, right? Most of this is from speculators buying up oil futures because they're betting that the demand is going to outweigh the supply, also the Saudis and other countries are cutting back on production because of this, to artificially drive up the prices. Not to mention there are people that make money every time a refinery or off shore drilling rig lays off people or shuts down. There are refineries down south that are being paid to stay closed. It's so bad that everything I'm reading in regards to pension plans and 401K's that are buying into oil futures is saying to stop because the market is eventually going to go bust because it can't sustain itself, not with the mess it's making with interest rates, inflation and the banks. I don't think we'll ever see 2 dollars a gallon in the US again, but I highly doubt we'll see 6 or 7, the market will bust before then, if it doesn't...well...then Wall Street is wrong and so am I. Shael
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