"When are gas prices going down?"
I think that sums up our general clueless-ness.
I've followed James Kunstler's various doomsday scenarios over the last few years. But Sara Robinson really wraps it all up in nice overview.
Our empire was made on oil. We swim in the stuff, we owe our affluent lifestyles to the black gold - fuel, plastics, fertilizers, my beloved cds, wonder drugs, etc. We've become a cheap oil behemoth. Car culture is our most pervasive religion in the land.
And what about the FUTURE? Check this out:
"It's never happened that an empire that built it's wealth on one energy resource also succeeded in dominating the next resource that supplanted it. Human nature being what it is, societies that are deeply invested in the current energy regime tend to fall into denial when that regime comes to it's natural end - either because it simply runs out, or because it's superceded by something even more efficient and versatile. People can't believe things won't go on as they always have, or imagine that life could be any different. They shut their eyes to looming trouble, ignore the signs of impending doom, and refuse to make any reasonable plans to navigate the coming changes."
That kind of sums up our energy policy. That and unleashing "wars of choice," upon the playgrounds of other's people's miseries - the lands where the big pools of oil still sit. No blood for oil? You must be joshing!
