Mark Jones writes:
[some people think that even to mention energy crises is just 'fatalism' but
that's not what the Bush regime thinks. They know the oil is running out,
and this is key to everything they say and do. Mark]
I don't see why the obvious lust for oil has to be based on a view that "oil is running out." Lots of people, including yours truly, have a lust for sex without assuming that "sex is running out."
An "energy crisis" doesn't have to be based on "oil running out" in the sense of a long-term disappearance. It could also be based on capitalism driving the demand for oil forward too quickly, relative to the _short-term_ supply. Also, some people blame the energy crisis of the 1970s on monopoly power of the oil-producing countries.
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
