PEAK OIL - EPOCHAL EVENT OF OUR LIVES

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You're input is invaluable and I always look forward to your thoughts. The road ahead for civilization is be terrible be it a financial meltdown, climate change including an ice age, and an accelerating decline in the sweet oil which was the basis of our civilization.

"Surplus energy provides the material foundation for civilized living - a comfortable and tasteful home instead of a bare shelter; attractive clothing instead of mere covering to keep warm; appetizing food instead of anything that suffices to appease hunger. It provides the freedom from toil without which there can be no art, music, literature, or learning. There is no need to belabor the point. What lifted man - one of the weaker mammals - above the animal world was that he could devise, with his brain, ways to increase the energy at his disposal, and use the leisure so gained to cultivate his mind and spirit. Where man must rely solely on the energy of his own body, he can sustain only the most meager existence."

"Energy Resources and Our Future" - Speech by Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957

Posted by Gail the Actuary on August 10, 2008 - 10:00am

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You're very welcome. May you have a healthy New Year, Howard.