Originally Posted by
Ignatius Riley
PG, look at all the plastic around you. Look at it all. Your contact lenses, the case they are carried in, the frames of your glasses on the plastic cord around your neck, the pen behind your ear, the keyboard in front of you, the toothbrush you brush your teeth with, the toothpaste even has hydrocarbons in it, the tubing of the paste, the hairbrush, on and on and on.
It isn't just about energy. And yeah, in the 1800s subsistance farming might have fed everyone. Now there are 230 million Americans, 6.5 billion people total. Without fertilizer, insecticide and irrigation (all dependent on hydrocarbons) you might be able to feed 2 billion of them, according to Ruppert.
Sorry to rain on anyones day, but ...
We invaded Afghanistan to establish a Unocal pipeline and to get poppy production back up to provide laundered cash for our markets.
We went into Iraq for the oil, baby.
The era of oil is at an end. It will be our demise unless we start retooling our way of life now.