tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post4173992862972423621..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: American fascism and musical chairsDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-1570321575997693752010-12-16T11:20:07.032+01:002010-12-16T11:20:07.032+01:00nice one i like it!nice one i like it!Auto Gas Auctionhttp://www.auto-gas-saver.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-84809482589985954722010-11-22T20:44:31.426+01:002010-11-22T20:44:31.426+01:00Your wrong! Without TRUE Americans like Mr. Beck t...Your wrong! Without TRUE Americans like Mr. Beck this county would slip into the stranglehold of SOCIALISM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-1229546377856366742010-09-21T21:21:54.864+02:002010-09-21T21:21:54.864+02:00Anonymous - Check James Howard Kunstler's meti...Anonymous - Check James Howard Kunstler's meticulous analysis of peak oil and the various "alternative energy" sources proposed to replace oil in his book "The Long Emergency". <br /><br />Short answer: Oil is the basis for every single material thing that makes 2010 life different from 1910 life, there simply is no replacement for oil, and we're running out of oil. When oil goes away, so does the possibility of endless economic growth. And so we're left with Mr. Seaton's musical chairs game.Joe Bauersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-15555460133071781692010-09-21T21:19:33.069+02:002010-09-21T21:19:33.069+02:00Very astute series of essays.
Regarding Anonymous&...Very astute series of essays.<br />Regarding Anonymous's comment (why are the least thoughtful comments always left anonymously)?:<br /><br />Technologies do not produce abundance. They are simply tools (that's what the Greek <i>techne</i> means. <br />Without energy, there can be no growth.<br />Without ever expanding supplies of relatively cheap and easily transportable, concentrated energy (aka oil), limitless growth is impossible.<br /><br />Nuclear energy requires enormous sums of non-renewable fossil fuel to build out. <br /><br />There are numerous other resources that are dwindling.<br /><br />The faith that technology will deliver abundance, whatever the problems with raw material depletion is just that: a faith with no support other than the previous two hundred years. The conditions, however, of that first period no longer apply.<br />The game is over but for the crying.Jacob Gitteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559764359800682222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-8944922459583123822010-09-21T20:57:16.578+02:002010-09-21T20:57:16.578+02:00@ Anonymous.
What makes you think there will be &q...@ Anonymous.<br />What makes you think there will be "game changing technologies" in the next 30 years? Are you willing to gamble your children's and grandchildren's future that there will be.<br /><br />As my father always like to say, "Expect the worst and hope for the best."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-74682915795016681682010-09-21T16:15:17.353+02:002010-09-21T16:15:17.353+02:00I like this. We cant keep doing it the same way, y...I like this. We cant keep doing it the same way, yet we don't have a plan. Democrats only have letting Bush tax cuts expire. The thing that really makes me mad is that we are required to buy crap to keep our GDP going. That's why we are here. We have to make something we can sell again, and to other countries! <br />How can it be 98-2 and the 2 [top 2 percent affected by tax cuts expiring] have such a big voice? They dont want you in the club! They are doing everything to keep you out. So yeah, look over there! Fire!master cylinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774386180547555780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-34539133575702334142010-09-20T16:34:06.805+02:002010-09-20T16:34:06.805+02:00So you know for a fact that America will not devel...So you know for a fact that America will not develop game changing technologies in the next 30 years?<br /><br />What are your sources?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com