posted on February 12, 2004 05:41:07 PM new
here is a website that is a must read, nothing to do with weirdness or anything like that,but a wake-up call
time for some serious alternative energy ideas
also i would suggest start selling everything you got that is useless or just collecting dust, and make some cash-flow fast
posted on February 12, 2004 06:10:14 PM new
So, Skylite, extrapolate those realities forecast by key geologists (and oil companies, heh) to what's happening in the world right now ahead of the predicted shortages. Doesn't it begin to seem that there's a mad-dash on to corner the world's known oil reserves, and claim (through wars ostensibly fought to "democratize" nations ruled by despots) dominion over them?
With these wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, America hasn't forestalled a worldwide shortage of oil, we've just seen to it that we'll have enough so that Bush's grandchildren can get arrested for drunk-driving in 2037, just like Old Grand Dad...
posted on February 12, 2004 06:21:04 PM new
Hm, since canada is the #1 supply house for oil for the U.S. methinks skylite will have to run for cover. lol
posted on February 12, 2004 07:23:37 PM new
Sometimes I think the faster this planet runs out of oil, the better off we'll be...that's why I drive a great big 1 ton truck....just doing my part
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posted on February 12, 2004 07:33:45 PM new
Old Grand Dad is one nasty mash...I prefer Rock Hill Farm Single Barrel....
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posted on February 12, 2004 07:38:45 PM new
this essay opens up a whole new picture as to what's going out there, i see the light as they say, so what is the solution, well plenty if one can somehow organize people and explain in plain simple language, it's time to prepare yourself
this is your new goal in life, and your children's
figure out how you will take the coming shock wave
some will be doing the self survival routine, some will commit suicide, others will get together with neigbours and towns to organize a self sufficient way to exist, that's if the government let's you
botton line is this, the crunch is coming, the days of plenty are over, time for change for us humans
and it don't matter where you live, it will affect us all
posted on February 12, 2004 07:46:46 PM new
Sky - I was just curious... do you ever have happy go lucky days of exteme and pointless silliness? ZThe central theme of your posts seems to do doom and gloom, I just wonder if you find the time to just enjoy and beautiful day or revel in in activities that serve no purpose other than to provide you with childlike joy?
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posted on February 12, 2004 08:00:30 PM new
Well okay, Skylite, I'll play along.
The one area I'm proficient in is carpentry/cabinetmaking. Most of the tools I use regularly require electricity. They won't be worth squat when the juice gets turned off, right? And I won't be able to work.
So, a few years ago I started buying or making manually-operated back-up tools. A treadle lathe, for instance. It'll kill me if I ever have to use some of the pristine Stanley planes I've bought; they're worth a fortune but, practically speaking, can do anything modern routers and shapers can, on elbow grease alone. Judging from the manic array in my garage, I'd guess I've got every saw, every brace and bit, every gimlet, every file, every hammer, every measuring device, every driver, every sander, in short, everything I might need to get on in a world with no 'lectricity; I just wish I'd planted my own forest forty years ago...
posted on February 12, 2004 08:20:28 PM new
pat: gimlets are nice, but kind of a foo-foo drink in my opinion. Who needs a little onion mucking up a perfectly good tumbler of hooch?
Rock Hill Farm is a single barrel, hand crafted bourbon. Made in the backwoods the old fashioned way, by divinely inspired elven folk. I knew you meant the real Old Grand Dad, I'm just finding it difficult to give much of a crap about anything tonight...
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posted on February 12, 2004 08:24:10 PM new
I'm rather fond of backwoods booze, Profe. Might we work out some mutually beneficial arrangement whereby I get my hands on some of it and you get another tankful of gas for that great snorting roadhog you're driving?
I hate gimlets, too. Nasty as drinks OR tools...
Edited to add: I know you know what I meant re: Old Grand Dad; I was just looking for an excuse to post that choice bit of history...
posted on February 12, 2004 08:33:25 PM new
picture this...can you ride a horse?.....we'll take a flask of Rock Hill and a couple of good Havana heaters, and ride up to the ridge line overlooking the ranch. We'll build a big fire and watch the sun set, the moon rise, and listen to the wildcat down in the arroyo screaming for her dinner.......won't need any gas
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posted on February 12, 2004 08:40:58 PM new
Gravid is welcome too..I have a retired Percheron gelding who goes 17 hands and 1600 pounds...what do you say Gravid?
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posted on February 12, 2004 08:43:46 PM new
I apologize for hijacking this thread. Mea Culpa, mea maxima culpa.....
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posted on February 12, 2004 08:50:20 PM new
A shame...Gravid and I will drink your share...or maybe Gravid's horse and I will drink your's and Gravid's
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posted on February 12, 2004 09:03:12 PM new
No kidding, Helen! All they do is stagger and laugh - that's easy.
I don't care if you're married, Prof, your setting sounds fabulous! I'll borrow Helen's cheetah skin bikini to add to the mood and you can get as drunk as you like, while we talk about what a bad person Twelvepole is.
posted on February 12, 2004 09:15:12 PM new
Hey Prof - I have been meaning to ask... how was the boar?
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posted on February 12, 2004 09:19:41 PM new
Good lord, what a depressing article that is.
I doubt there is anything any of us can do about it if it happens anyway and a handful of people can't stop it from happening so I'll just go along and hope to go in the first nasty wave.
Since the 1960's I have wondered why we have not come up with alternative energy solutions..perhaps there aren't any that are viable.
I used to believe in American ingenuity to get us through things but Americans don't seem like they have "it" anymore.
Krafty, can I pretend to be drunk with you? All religions are equally right
