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It is fairly easy to see how the end of cheap oil can be used as an
organizing tool IMHO -- just look at the protests, truckers strikes,
collapse of airlines, car parts manufacturers, etc. which is a byproduct of
rising energy prices, or the political furor over rising pump prices or home
heating costs (natural gas has risen 400 per cent in Canada). Today, the
Bank of Canada raised its interest rate to combat 'inflation' caused by
rising energy costs. When rising transportation costs and production costs
in China start to be incorporated into retail prices at Walmart, to maintain
Walmarts profits, and real wages continue to fall, I think there will be a
real opportunity to organize.
It seems to me that if we ignore this issue and don't explain it to the
public so they see where the ultimate responsibility lies and understand
that the capitalist system only makes the problem intractable, or if we deny
the problem, we are courting disaster on a very large scale.
Paul Phillips
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Yea, we don't really have a choice as to whether to propagandize against
capitalism's energy/oil agenda. We would be negligent not to. Protest
against the war on Iraq can be connected to the end of cheap oil.
Charles
