Originally posted by Dawnbreaker
There's still a delusional part of me that thinks that this can all be solved if we can quickly find a way away from oil and gas. If we can find a stable, near-inexhaustable energy (like hydrogen cells), the prices of just about EVERYTHING drops again. I think oil is the root of all evil in this. But as it is, we're not even concerned with finding alternative fuels that can be used on a global scale. We're putting all our money into finding ways to maximize the efficiency of our current energy sources, which in the end turns out to be counter-productive. The hydrogen age could already be here if we weren't busy spending trillions of dollars every year to get oil over here in the US. Just my 2 cents.

Your two cents is money well spent. You're on to it. energy is where it's at. Cheap energy, easily had, will make a country, planet, or better yet, mankind, grow.

We sure had a run with this and if we could come up with something .quick and easy like hydrogen, kryptonite , something, that would be great I personally think we should be scouring that Tesla stuff. But hey who knows.

Oh yeah, oil's the problem alright. We are oil. And oil ain't growing. No Actually running short. This a rather complex equation, but let's start from here.There's a lot of oil. Just falls a little short sometimes.And after all we do live in a "just in time system". and the delivery of oil is a complex system. Things can happen, things break down. supply that is ready and on the road, gets thin, Prices go up to slacken demand (and increase cash, ohu yeah.) the economy takes a hit, and things go down hill from there.

You bettcha. If we had some kind of free unlimited magical energy at our finger tips ready to go , sh**t we could all sit back and take it easy. And life would be grand.

So you're really sold on this hydrogen thing, huh. Hey buddy, I don't know nothing about this hydrogen thing but I sure hope it works out like you plan.

You nailed it with that last one, "trillions of dollars every year just to get oil over here." I think that pretty much explains our current predicament.What a drain on our economy. That stuff ain't cheap no more.

Did I say I'd be looking into that Tesla stuff.

Originally posted by KDM_Souljah
Communism took over America and most Americans had too good a life and where too entertained to see it coming,40 out of 45 communist goals have been completed and are in ful effect and you dont even notice it,the communist police state is in place should you resist the final collapse,once America goes then the whole world is screwed,the western world that is.

pick,pick picking away for years until we were all ground down too this existance.

What is happening in the US has nothing to do with communism.

The so called communist goals you talk about are taken out of context from the Communist Manifesto. Those are not the gaols of communism but simply what is know by Marxists as the transition period, a temporary state system that is supposed to make the move from capitalism to communism. Once achieved there would be no state or government.

But that is Marxism, not all communists are Marxist. Anarchist communists don't support the Marxist transition period.

What is happening to our economy is because of capitalism, the present system. Capitalism is an economic system, and the form of government does not change how capitalism operates. Capitalism can operate under a totalitarian government, communism in it's true definition can not. When you have a minority ownership of the means of production that minority becomes an authority. If the majority own their own means of production it protects you from outside control of any government.