Buyer Beware

The Significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein

Read this old book: "A Step Further Out", Jerry Pournelle, PhD. Get it used at Amazon. Amazing thing in the book is his talk about "the redistributionist polices of President Carter" and the lack of action by the government to do anything productive about the energy problem. There is energy in space; H3 on the moon, solar everywhere, Thorium for thorium reactors (google it). Thinking one level up for solutions.

Now I will quote "How power happens" in July Popular Science: "The US consumed 94.6 quadrillion BTU's of energy in 2009. More than any other nation. It also produced more energy than any nation but China: some 73 quadrillion BTU's. That.... breaks down to 308 million BTU's per capita  - the equivalent of about 50 barrels of oil for every American."

Oil. We need all we can get as fast as we can get it until we replace it with something that works. That is too too obvious. But not to our Congress critters. ANWAR has lots of oil. It is 74 miles away from the Alaskan pipeline. Last time congress did ANYTHING it was a bill to drill there. Bill Clinton vetoed it "because it would take ten years".  That was, uhh, 13 years ago. Our current government shuts down drilling in the Gulf "because it is environmentally dangerous".  We deep drill one mile deep. So now our rigs will be sent to Pemco in Brazil where they will drill TWO miles deep. Instead of owning the oil by production we will have to buy it back. Smart (not). What is their willful intent? THEY want to raise the cost of energy to stimulate alternatives? (That's is what they tell you.) That's like swatting flies off your nose with a baseball bat. Not too healthy. Let us all hope we survive their idiot actions. More likely is that they want things to get worse such that the "solutions" they offer will get them more power over your lives and pocketbook. They are looking for a way to make you a SERF on their own personal fiefdom. Buyer beware.

How much food have you stored by for the coming depression? It is about 12 months away. Seven years of fat, and seven years of lean said the ant to the grasshopper. Are you prepared?