So we sit along I-5, having long ago hooked our future on gas stations, restaurants, and recreation. We sit alongside I-5, where diesel trucks rumble up and down, R.V.s cruise by at 6 miles per gallon, and once in awhile we go to Cottonwood to act like cowboys in our beloved big pickup trucks.
Most everyone in Potterville you see has a pickup truck. We put decals on our trucks, saying things like Obama Sucks, or You Will Have to Pry my Gun from my Cold Dead Hands, stuff like that.
We have several shopping centers, with many empty storefronts, that are miles apart, and we are planning another "regional" center in prime farming land about 10 miles south of Potterville. The residents of this bucolic area have got a petition on the ballot to stop it, but we will find a way to build it; it means lots of jobs, the outside developer promised. Build baby build!
And now, Obama, damn him, has raised gas prices. The damn environmentalists, who ruined our logging with protecting the Spotted Owl and other varmits, now aim to cause me to stop driving my pickup truck.
I was so mad that I decided to get some books and read up on oil. I was on a Blog this weekend, and saw a chart that showed huge resevoirs of oil that we just won't drill for because of Obama I guess.
So I read 'When Oil Peaked' by Kennety Deffeyes. He is a disciple of this guy named M. King Hubbard. Both of them are esteemed geologists, who worked for Shell Oil and are often quoted regarding oil supplies. They should be able to prove once and for all that oil is plentiful, all we have to drill baby drill. Oilmen should know?
Oh Shit!
We are running out of oil. No shit? We have 40 years left at any kind of competitive level. Oh shit!
"The invisible hand of economics is now clenched into an invisible fist, pounding the economy down to fit the resource base." ('When Oil Peaked" by Kenneth S. Deffeyes).
In 2005 oil was $44.00/barrell; in June 2008 it was $147.00/barrel; where it is almost today. Meanwhile, "tripling the price brought about a trivial amount of additional oil" ('When Oil Peaked" Deffeyes).
Does that mean Drill Baby Drill will not fix this? Does that mean that oil companies, who can make huge profits by mining oil at the huge price increases for a barrel of crude, have not in the past four years been able to increase production? Does this mean easy to get oil, cheap oil is gone!?
That is exactly what that means.
The book, and dozens like it, goes on to analyze geologically the fact that cheap crude oil, easy to mine and get, is all gone. That is why conservatives want to drill in Alaska next to the Arctic Circle, because there isn't any more easy to get oil. That is why B.P. was almost 100 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, using a rig that was illegal, to get to the precious oil. That is why they risked so much; because it truly is black gold!
That is why Rick Santorum recently held up a rock of tar sand, as our salvation, but did not tell people how expensive it will make it into gas nor the huge costs involved to the land it occupies.
That is why we are being told fracking for natural gas is our salvation, there is lots of it, and we can easily put it into natural gas stations that don't exist and in the naturual gas engine in my pickup that isn't there?! Oh shit!
That is why Bridgstone will build a pipeline eventually aross the U.S., through prime farmland, endangering the water supply, to get oil to market, to sell to China and to us at over $6.00/gallon. That's right folks, six dollars a gallon! Probably higher.
Let's see, at my pickup's 10 miles per gallon, that means it will cost $36.00 to drive to Chico! $150 to drive to San Jose....Oh Shit!
And the price of gas can only go up from here on in...because we are flat running out it. Didn't Obama tell us we had to change, that we had to get back on trains, and buses and public transportation? No shit!
Oh Shit! We are screwed. And we built our damned town, Potterville, around I-5, completely depending on cheap gasoline, to get people up here. For example, we just built a "Field of Dreams" softball/baseball/soccer complex at huge cost, because they told us people from the Bay Area would drive up here to use it. They haven't and won't! Oh shit!
I can see Russia from my House!?
Oh Shit!
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