first off, before reading the rest of this post, i give my highest recomendation that you spend 1:22:51 of your time and check out this documentary:

http://www.stage6.com/user/ChotaPapa...19/Eco-Movie-4

its probably the best documentary ive ever seen. blows "an inconvenient truth" out of the water, and makes al gore look like a child pornagrapher. its probably the smartest and most honest look at oil/ the energy crisis available.

a few things that really stuck with me:

1) the US has 2% of the world's oil reserves, consumes 25% of the world's oil, and imports 2/3 of its oil. obviously that is gonna have HUGE implications on our foreign policy. suddam hussein's real crime wasnt huminatarian or possessing illegal WMD's. does anyone believe that if iraq had been optimizing its oil output and selling it to the US that we would have invaded. no chance in hell.

2) one barrel of oil, containing 42 gallons and sold at an exchange for less than $100 dollars, contains the energy equivalent to that of 12 men working for one full year. when you think about that, no wonder we are willing to commit genocide over it. also, oil is ridiculously under priced. when you can drive your car 2 miles and only consume ~20 cents of gas (assuming 3.20 a gallon) and you can lug hundreds of pounds of stuff with you, its a no brainer. if option 1 involves driving and fossil fuels, option 2 which doesnt involve driving and fossil fuels is gonna be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse than spending 20 cents.

3) there are alot of indicators that we have already achieved peak oil output, or will in the relatively near future.

4) the human race's population exploded with oil, and life as we know it is bound to oil. when oil runs out, if we dont have plan b figured out, no way can we provide for 6 + (it might be way higher than that when we get to this problem) billion people. the video speculates we might be able to provide for 1.5 to 2 billion people. so what happens to the other 5 billion?

5) the financial market is completely bound to oil, too. every company traded at the NYSE assumes cheep oil is available. when that assumption is no longer true, those companies are overpriced. with rising oil prices, were already seeing some pretty tumultuous times with stocks. in the last two weeks, weve seen lows that we havent seen in years. and oil trading at a hundred dollars a barrell might be concidered cheep in the very near future, so what happens to the market then?

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so video is pretty mind blowing. it mentioned how JFK said lets go to the moon and then we went to the moon, and that a president could do the same thing today w/ weaning us off oil (though one dude says it would be more equivalent to colonizing pluto). right now, i dont see any of these presidential candidates stepping up to the plate. barrak would probably be the most likely, but he isnt showing his cards on pretty much any issue, so thats mere speculation/ hope.

but before you go to the cellar and hang yourself, ive already come up with the solution, hinted at in the video.

all we have to do is build a solar pannel ~ the size of texas and orbit that shit in the atmosphere. then, using technology developed by Tesla a hundred years ago, we're gonna broadcast that solar energy all over the world. fueling up your car, changing batteries, plugging in power cords, will all be distant memoreis. everything will just run. and incase your wondering if you can get a little taste of that energy $, the answer is no, douchebag. im gonna give away the energy to all. obviously, im gonna need $ to maintain the solar panel and related infrastructure, but that will come from the UN.