37 Facts About How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families

[NoOneMan]

22. Its already happening

Why else would there be more drilling?

Not only is the world population ever increasing, some of the most populous nations are slingshotting their development with oil & coal (namely China and India). So we have more exponentially more people using far, far more energy every year. Do you think this unlocked energy in the US (which is a global commodity) will be enough to maintain infrastructure and grow the economy further, at greater than 2%, infinitely, irregardless of population and global demand?

Imagine a hole infinitely deep, filled with apples in a village. You don't have to even dig the hole. You just have to scoop the apples off the top and feed your family. Until you take out enough that you can no longer reach the cusp of the hole from the inside. Then you have to build a ladder and climb down. You can only bring out what you have room for in your pockets. Soon you make a bucket. You are old so you send your kids down. The ladder starts to break so you fix it; you start to make it taller, taller. One day this whole village will be fed by your grandchildren, who climb down that hole, filling up their ever-repaired buckets, and bringing it to the surface. And unbeknownst to everyone, there just might come a day when it takes more energy to get down that mile-deep hole, fill the bucket, and climb up, than all the energy that can be provided in a single bucket. And worse, that buckets going to get divided by every damn mouth you spawned while working on the hole. In fact, it doesn't matter if you send everyone in the village down constantly to get more an more apples...if they can't recoup their energy and the hole keeps getting deeper, the crisis gets worse

That is sort of our reality. Declining EROEI. What now?