I guessed as much, but had already written my overly-intemperate response,
so sorry in return...
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seth Sandronsky
> Sent: 10 September 2000 16:30
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CrashList] My unclarity
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Apologies for my unclarity.
> I was noting that the corporate press--not you--are ignoring the system's
> ever-climbing oil consumption versus OPEC's proposed drop-in-the-barrel
> production increase of 800,000 b/d.
>
> Comradely,
> Seth
>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [CrashList] World oil consumption
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:13:52 +0100
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>
>
> Seth wrote:
>
>
> >the articles Mark Jones posted to
> >Crashlist from the official sources deftly omit one big part of
> the global
> >oil production story: World consumption of oil was 76 million barrels a
> day
> >during January-April 2000, an increase of eight million barrels a day
> since
> >1990, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). And the US?
> Its
> >oil consumption was a mere 19 million barrels per day during
> January-April
> >2000 versus 17 million barrels in January-April 1990, according to the
> IEA.
> >
> >Seems that concrete reality is a bit much for the official sources to
> report
> >to the public, eh?
> >
>
> Not only am I not "deftly omitting *rising* oil consumption", that's my
> whole point! In article after article over many years, I've been arguing
> that there is NO SUCH THING as 'virtualisation' of the economy, NO SUCH
> THING as the so-called 'New Economy', Internet etc, actually
> REDUCING energy
> consumption. We have been told time after time that energy is 'no longer
> important' because it takes 'too small a percentage share of GDP to matter
> any more'; we have been told that capitalist economies have become
> 'energy-efficient' and that energy input costs have become
> 'decoupled' from
> economic growth and that energy is a 'declining part of each
> dollar unit of
> GDP' etc. All lies! For a long time it was impossible even to get
> a hearing
> (but people like Doug Henwood and Carrol Cox are now more clearly revealed
> as ostriches). The truth was that (a) oil was AND IS
> indispensable to modern
> economies, (b) oil is a highly finite resource; (c) oil is irreplaceable,
> and the so-called 'alternatives' (wind, PVs, biomass etc) are just hoaxes;
> (d) oil supply would start to peak and decline after 2000.
>
> And the truth WAS AND IS that capitalism cannot exist WITHOUT
> GROWTH: it is
> a grow-or-die society, and that too is what I've repeatedly been
> saying, and
> I've been pointing to the simple fact that when energy deficits bite,
> capitalism will almost INSTANTLY enter crisis, and depending on
> what happen
> s next, that crisis can be final, ie, can result in a
> catatsrophic economic
> slump, followed by wars, mass dieoffs and more besides.
>
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