I hope you are right waves. cuz right now, I do not see a usable, sustainable, replacement. but I do believe oil companies will continue to discover more oil as time goes on. nevertheless, its a problem that should not be ignored until it cant be anymore. I hope to see much more proactiveness.
I agree 100% that it should not be ignored and I would love to see some alternate energy out there to stop our reliance on oil. I guess I just tend to think that sometimes these doomsday warnings also have a political agenda behind them in some way and that things are not as bad as they make it out to be.
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I agree 100% that it should not be ignored and I would love to see some alternate energy out there to stop our reliance on oil. I guess I just tend to think that sometimes these doomsday warnings also have a political agenda behind them in some way and that things are not as bad as they make it out to be.
A very large portion of the oil that is imported into the US is coming from Alberta oil sands, which has a consumption:production ratio of 1:1.1. The oil there will last a long time, but the cost of getting it out of the ground is going to start rising exponentially with natural gas reserves running low. Also, they are now forced to dig deeper and use very costly insitue extraction on the deeper tar beds. The easy sand won't last forever and neither will the cheap gas at the pump. Expect oil and gas prices to increase by 50% within the year.
Farming in the US is pretty much unprofitable without subsidies, the cost of inputs has exploded, partly due to control of GM seed by Monsanto and Cargill. These companies claim that the increase in yields, which has not been proven, relieve stress on the world's food shortage...but all it really does is put more of the worlds food production under their control.
Farming in the US is pretty much unprofitable without subsidies
Farming in the US is pretty much unprofitable BECAUSE of subsidies.
That would be like saying
"My coke-head mother is pretty much unproductive without coke".
No. Your mother would actually be very productive, in all likelyhood, if she would just get off the fucking coke and straighten up her life. But the coke "works" for her, and she is addicted to it. So it looks like it does wonders for her.
I dunno.
I think this cuba video kind've proves that point.
Big tractors, mechanized harvester, all that equipment, and all that OIL to run those machines, along with all the big-oil fertilizers and pesticides and all the trucks and oil needed to transport california oranges to maine ... are EXPENSIVE.
THAT is why farmers need subsidies ... because in that kind've production environment, they ARE running in the red.
But Cuba proves that once the oil goes, and farmers STOP using that shit, and they start growing local and carting to market etc ... then the cost of farming goes down (and by the way, you can employ a shit ton more workers!), the quality of the produce improves imeasurabley, and the quality of the soil and the environment as a whole is greatly improved!
WOO!
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
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I agree 100% that it should not be ignored and I would love to see some alternate energy out there to stop our reliance on oil. I guess I just tend to think that sometimes these doomsday warnings also have a political agenda behind them in some way and that things are not as bad as they make it out to be.
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New Orleans '95
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Tampa '08
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Fenway Park '18
St. Louis '22
A very large portion of the oil that is imported into the US is coming from Alberta oil sands, which has a consumption:production ratio of 1:1.1. The oil there will last a long time, but the cost of getting it out of the ground is going to start rising exponentially with natural gas reserves running low. Also, they are now forced to dig deeper and use very costly insitue extraction on the deeper tar beds. The easy sand won't last forever and neither will the cheap gas at the pump. Expect oil and gas prices to increase by 50% within the year.
Farming in the US is pretty much unprofitable without subsidies, the cost of inputs has exploded, partly due to control of GM seed by Monsanto and Cargill. These companies claim that the increase in yields, which has not been proven, relieve stress on the world's food shortage...but all it really does is put more of the worlds food production under their control.
You got to spend it all
Farming in the US is pretty much unprofitable BECAUSE of subsidies.
That would be like saying
"My coke-head mother is pretty much unproductive without coke".
No. Your mother would actually be very productive, in all likelyhood, if she would just get off the fucking coke and straighten up her life. But the coke "works" for her, and she is addicted to it. So it looks like it does wonders for her.
I dunno.
I think this cuba video kind've proves that point.
Big tractors, mechanized harvester, all that equipment, and all that OIL to run those machines, along with all the big-oil fertilizers and pesticides and all the trucks and oil needed to transport california oranges to maine ... are EXPENSIVE.
THAT is why farmers need subsidies ... because in that kind've production environment, they ARE running in the red.
But Cuba proves that once the oil goes, and farmers STOP using that shit, and they start growing local and carting to market etc ... then the cost of farming goes down (and by the way, you can employ a shit ton more workers!), the quality of the produce improves imeasurabley, and the quality of the soil and the environment as a whole is greatly improved!
WOO!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Can't get the video...
You got to spend it all