Goodbye American Dreamland

[chlamor]

Goodbye American Dreamland

by Jan Lundberg

In my long career of concern over oil pollution -- from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply -- I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. I have previously testified before Congress as an oil marketing expert, and I later enjoyed audiences of millions on many occasions even when my message was radically beyond mainstream news-media priorities. Now, we are witnessing an awakening of the role of oil as a dwindling substance responsible for technological miracles, energy gluttony and strategic/military pursuits. Everyone's differences will have to be put aside as we are starting to enter a new age.

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I told him our various labels (Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative) are outmoded and can be dispensed with because we'll all have to come together. He asked me what should people be told about dealing with the oil crash. Besides minimizing petroleum dependence in general, I suggested getting plastic out of their diets. I informed him of the toxic oil spill known as plastics that has yet to hit people's consciousness. In hearing something such as this, it seems to me that Congressman Bartlett has opened the door of perception on a number of issues and viewpoints, by looking critically and honestly at oil.

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The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other food stores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot from China will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoarding and uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For only a short time will the police and military be able to maintain order, if at all. The damage that several days' oil shortage and outage will do will soon wreak permanent damage that starts with companies and consumers not paying their bills and not going to work.

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However, there will be replacement societies, starting with bands, tribes and rural communities that will start cooperating amongst themselves as never before. The Age of Bioregional Countries, based on cooperation and mutual aid will begin. A main job-category will be restoration of the land so as to provide a semblance of the diversity of food that Earth provided prior to petroleum farming. Social structures will no longer lend themselves to overcrowded workforces dependent on the dollar to buy goods and services from huge, distant and unaccountable corporations. Argentina may be a guide to post collapse society, with its egalitarian and worker/citizen controlled systems.

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http://www.energybulletin.net/6208.html

[Nordmadr]

1. Oh no, not Peak Oil again.

No one wants to believe this will come to pass. That would just be too terrible to imagine. It can't be. Surely, we'll come up with something to stop it.

Denial, it's a lovely thing isn't it?

Unforutnately, Peak Oil provides the explanation as to exactly why this Administration is operating the way it is and why this Country is being primed for fascist control. Hold on to your handbasket, it's carrying your ass, my ass, and everyone else with it on a one way trip down to meet the the number one bad guy. It promises to be one nasty ride.

Olaf

[puddycat]

3. you mean overt fascist control? its already fascism, isn't it?

Isn't fascism simply what we have--the control of our government by big corporate interests? Fascism has been making steady inroads since World War II. The very people who put Bush into office lead their lives by the Big Lie--tell a big enough lie and the people will believe it, and the big lie is that we are living in a Democracy.

[omega minimo]

4. The plausible deniability is so far gone.....

"Denial, it's a lovely thing isn't it?"

"...exactly why this Administration is operating the way it is and why this Country is being primed for fascist control. "

"Isn't fascism simply what we have--the control of our government by big corporate interests?"

"The very people who put Bush into office lead their lives by the Big Lie--tell a big enough lie and the people will believe it, and the big lie is that we are living in a Democracy."

.....the dissconnect so complete, that the American public doesn't register that it is Big Oil and Big Energy that is Big Lying from the Roval Office.

:evilgrin:

[Nordmadr]

2. It amazes me that no one cares about this stuff.

Just totally unfucking believable.

Olaf