Can you post any links that report that energy usage will increase 'exponentially'? This is something I have not heard or read (well, other than from you on this list).
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Judah wrote: >> Just because there is uncertainty in the statistics of others does not >> mean that the shit you pull from your ass has equal value. > > You need to ease up on the coffee I think. You get pretty worked up. > > I think I may have explained this before, but this is an email list > not a PhD dissertation. I'm just telling you what I hear from people > that do the research. And those people are saying 2 things: > > (1.) The world's energy *demand* will increase exponentially until it > can't due to supply. > > (2.) The limiting factor will be liquid fuels. Here's what's going to > happen within the next 3-5 years: > > a.) As the economy (fake) recovers the broken market for liquid fuels > will yield demand far out-pacing supply. > > b.) In response liquid fuel prices will rise and never come back down. > > c.) This will trigger both inflation and recession as transportation > and materials costs sky rocket. > > d.) There'll be 2 choices to switch over: natural gas engines and/or > electric vehicles. In either case, it'll be a huge cost to our fuel > stations, families, etc as they have to buy new vehicles. If it's > electric that'll tax our already crumbling electric infrastructure > which will mean we'll need to fix that as well as build coal or nuke > plants. If it's nukes that'll take 10-15 years. > > e.) There'll be large migrations to cities as suburban living, with > it's associated travel costs, becomes too expensive but then food will > become a problem so there's an alternative de-centralization theory. > > No of course we could start planning for this now before the crisis, > but we're too stupid to do that. Sam will claim we don't need to and > you'll pull out your government statistics and so the public won't > support it without the crisis. > > And the public is lulled by this past economic crisis. They don't > realize that the only reason they're not destitute is because the fed > can print money. > > The problem with an energy crisis is that the government can't print energy. > > But maybe we come up with some new energy supply before all of this happens. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:310479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
