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  Peak Oil

  by DanTheMan in

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  i don't know why i read stuff like this, but i just can't seem to stay away from it.. sometimes i really really really wish i could figure out a way to end my life without hurting my family.

  i do not want to witness what the next 20 years is going to bring.. http://www.totse.com/en/politics/economic_documents/lifeaftertheoi172879.html

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  donkey

  When you say that you think peak oil production occurred in 2000 and has gone down every year since, would this take into account the global recession for the last 3 years that we are now just starting to come out of. The recession could easily explain why oil production has gone lower due to lower demand.

  Production has not peaked (or if it has we will only know about it after the fact). Consumption did not decline and is scheduled to increase as we bring Asian countries rapidly online eg. China and its close neighbors. http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=22526 Two articles of reference showing the differential between production and consumtion: http://pages.ca.inter.net/~jhwalsh/oilcapv.pdf and http://pages.ca.inter.net/~jhwalsh/oiltrdv.pdf One thing is certain, we will see a peak. The issue is: even if we find alternate sources of energy these take time to bring online and if we expect them to replace oil it is very likely to be a lond drawn out process (decades). we are spending cash on everything else instead of this problem. Politicians will wait until the problem is very bad and then they will spend money...we can only hope there is enough time.
  
  To add to this we are expected to see the entitlement programs in the US run out of funding in this time period - just glorious timing.

  If we should get rid of our pets, can we eat them?

  Donkey meat tastes terrible.
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  Peak Oil

  by DanTheMan in

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  i don't know why i read stuff like this, but i just can't seem to stay away from it.. sometimes i really really really wish i could figure out a way to end my life without hurting my family.

  i do not want to witness what the next 20 years is going to bring.. http://www.totse.com/en/politics/economic_documents/lifeaftertheoi172879.html

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  donkey

  Dan,

  I will happily prove to be WRONG. I will receive joy in the fact that I am ridiculed about it because that is nothing in comparison to the issues we face if I am not.

  I think the site: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html is a better reference with some great research into this issue.
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  Peak Oil

  by DanTheMan in

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  i don't know why i read stuff like this, but i just can't seem to stay away from it.. sometimes i really really really wish i could figure out a way to end my life without hurting my family.

  i do not want to witness what the next 20 years is going to bring.. http://www.totse.com/en/politics/economic_documents/lifeaftertheoi172879.html

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  donkey

  This is just a ploy to resurrect the Donkey.

  Interestingly look at the latest Businessweek (European Edition): the cover story: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_14/b3877007.htm

  I truly hope that it is just a bunch of BS. But it's not. We will reach (hopefully we haven't yet): Peak Oil production. It is a mathematical certainty.

  Now will we reach societal desecration as the author of http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ states? I do not know. Oil is currently used in over 3,000 (thousand) products. The spiking growth in consumption from China is frightening. China overtook Japan to become the second largest oil consuming nation and will soon challenge the US (reference http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2516309).

  The choices are up to us as a society and as individuals. We can panic or do something. It all depends on what we see as the outcome. I have hedged financially for this and a few other events. But if we reach societal decay on the scale of the worst doomsayers predictions we are all toast. For this reason I am even considering moving offshore to another country - but thats my personal reaction. I am a kook I know, but thats how I have always been and will always be. I am afterall just a stupid donkey. The rest of humanity worries about nonsense...I worry about finding fuel for tractors so I don't have to pull a plow again!!!
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  US fingerprints 'allied' visitors

  by Simon in

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  how to win friends and influence people?

  as if us customs weren't unpleasant enough already ... now they will make everyone feel like a criminal.

  i hope we follow the lead of brazil and do the same to all us visitors coming over here.. your country is turning into a police state.

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  US fingerprints 'allied' visitors

  by Simon in

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  how to win friends and influence people?

  as if us customs weren't unpleasant enough already ... now they will make everyone feel like a criminal.

  i hope we follow the lead of brazil and do the same to all us visitors coming over here.. your country is turning into a police state.

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  donkey

  screw it
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  US fingerprints 'allied' visitors

  by Simon in

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  how to win friends and influence people?

  as if us customs weren't unpleasant enough already ... now they will make everyone feel like a criminal.

  i hope we follow the lead of brazil and do the same to all us visitors coming over here.. your country is turning into a police state.

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  donkey

  screw it
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  The Passion Christian Hype is Making Me Sick--Thoughts

  by blacksheep in

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  i've seen the passion.

  thought i'd be moved.

  it supposedly has changed people's lives, caused them to confess sins (actually turned themselves in as criminals), etc.. please, can you explain to me why shindler's list didn't inspire such actions?

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  donkey

  Serves Jesus right for watching as millions of helpless children starve to death or die of diseases in 3rd world countries.

  He could help them - but he chooses to stroke himself by saying it is all done to prove that Satan is a liar.

  I am supposed to think God loves me now? Why didn't he show love to the suffering children then?

  Simple answer: it's all BS!!
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  for dubla on iraq

  by Realist in

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  hello dubla, .

  i really don't intend to get into a personal quarrel about this issue but what stunned me was your statement about my knowledge on the iraq issue.

  are you sure your knowledge exceeds mine?

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  donkey

  are you equally willing to bomb the big shots in the west who are responsible for way more death than all "terrorists" together?

  Who specifically are you referring to?
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  New explosives found on Spanish Railroad

  by donkey in

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  from reuters news service:.

  bomb found on spanish high-speed rail track.

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  donkey

  How so? Please explain - you raised some questions and I gave my opinion ... how is that 'taking any bait'?

  Because you immediately assumed I was a republican. Due to the fact that my earlier thread title had inferences about Bush in it you wrongfuly assumed I was a Bushite. I have never had the government do anything for me in my life except screw me over. I have achieved everything in life (the little I have achieved) in spite of the government. I truly could not wish for anything but less government. Of course Repulicans will dishonestly say they are for less government - they just want a government that forces religion down people's throats.

  As I have said before Bush sucks...Kerry just sucks worse IMO. Given the choice of the evils I have to go with Bush.

  Simon, at least you have an opinion - I respect that more than the wishy-washy folk who don't have opinions (even though I disagree with your opinions).
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  New explosives found on Spanish Railroad

  by donkey in

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  from reuters news service:.

  bomb found on spanish high-speed rail track.

  by adrian croft .

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  donkey

  Simon,
  

  You took the bait and swallowed it (proverbially speaking of course)...

  I am not a republican, that's the problem when you only have a simplistic black or white view of the world....left or right, black or white, ying or yang.

  I think the leftist "play nice" and the right-wing "my way or the highway" attitudes are completely silly. Of course since you immediately assumed that my assertions were those of a republican you painted me with your "I hate the conservatives" broad brush. Now I am not weaseling out of things..perhaps you do well to educate yourself on what a Libertarian truly believes and you might view me differently also I am not pro the Iraq war for instance...ahh surprise. The war was ill conceived and should have been internationally sanctioned as the removal of a dictator if we were to remove him at all - not an irrational fear based mess, such as we have now.

  All things being said I am just as content for my country to go totally isolationist (esp. with the check book...that's a cheque book for you). Let the world sort itself out and if anyone messes with us on our territory then take them out. Iraq has NOTHING to do with terrorism...I think we both agree on that simple precept.