> >> Rising energy costs will probably cause a few
> problems, but I don't see how
> >> Bush or Cheney for all their failings can be
> blamed for that particular problem.
> > I'm thinking that causing massive
> instability in the major oil producing
> > region might have something to do with
> it. When you add in determined
> > opposition to any form of conservation, I
> think most of it is covered.
> That may have pushed up oil prices by
> $20 a barrel or so, but it has nothing
> to do with the underlying problem of
> finite oil supplies and growing world
> demand. If anything it might turn out
> to be a positive - forcing the world
> to consider its energy future a few
> years earlier than otherwise.
> I reckon a hike in the price of oil is
> trivial compared to the deaths and
> maiming of thousands of Americans and
> hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the
> name of non-existent weapons of mass
> destruction.
> I want to know what global catastrophe
> Jon was talking about!
> Regards,
> Wayne.
the same old end of the world as we know it scenario, wayne; war, famine,
pestilence and death. the four horsemen of the apocalypse, armageddon,
ragnarok, doomsday, global warming, collapse of civilization, etc.
it is still possible to slow it down, maybe even halt it, but under bush-co we
have been hastening the end times. the bush/cheney policies have had a major
impact on the global economy, not that the spread of materialism in asia is to
be discounted.
jon
jon
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