- After church on Sunday, I purchased the lowest grade
gasoline I could find in Denver for $3.36 per gallon for my four-cylinder
car. It ripped a hole in my wallet! However, in Los Angeles, car owners
pay a whopping $3.86 for a gallon of gas. Diesel costs $4.17 per gallon
in California.
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- In London, according to my British contact David Hepper,
English citizens have paid an equivalent of $8.00 per gallon for the past
several years.
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- While Americans burn 20 million barrels of oil daily,
the human race burns a mind-numbing 84 million barrels of oil every single
day of the year.
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- China, closing in on the American Dream of a chicken
in every pot and a car in every garage, today adds 16 million automobiles
to its roads annually. They suffered a 60 mile traffic jam last fall, commonplace
in Los Angeles and Chicago! (Source: Brian Williams at NBC New) At China's
current rate by 2030, according to James Howard Kunstler, author of The
Long Emergency, they expect to burn 98 million barrels of oil daily! That's
one country with 1.3 billion people and adding 8.0 million net gain annually.
They will burn more gasoline per day in the next 19 years, than the entire
human race burns daily in 2011.
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- To display the dynamic of burning 84 million barrels
of oil daily in 2011, let's take an oil "drum" that holds 42
gallons. It measures 20 inches at the base. If you take 84 million of them
and stood them side by side, they would create a "belt" around
the world at the equator of 25,000 miles. We fill all 84 million of them
with oil pumped from the ground and burn them down to nothing but "carbon
footprint" every single day of the year. (Source: Dr. John Tanton, www.thesocialcontract.com)
Check the carbon footprint damage at www.350.org for the accelerating
environmental damage to our biosphere created from such a horrendous and
continuous burn of fossil fuels.
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- While you and I may complain that gasoline costs too
much and it's not back down to the .19 cents a gallon that I paid as a
high school kid, what will happen when gasoline reaches $10.00 per gallon
and higher? (Source: Chris Steiner's book-$20 Per Gallon) After that,
what happens when it runs out?
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- Yes, you will hear that the planet makes unlimited amounts
of oil because it's busy under the surface creating black gold. You will
hear from others that we have enough oil for another 100 years. You will
hear all sorts of tales like the story about the preacher in Alaska where
he heard from an oil man that the tundra holds billions of barrels. You
will hear that Montana holds more oil than Saudi Arabia.
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- What if none of that's true? Anybody ever thought about
the prospect of running out of oil? What if unlimited oil is all conjecture?
What if, in fact, at some point in the future, the human race cannot pump
any more oil out of the ground? After all, this is a finite planet!
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- How would we fill our tractors that plant the crops for
the food we need? How would we heat our homes-all 312 million of us?
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- As a side note: what if the conjectures of unlimited
supply proved to be true? What if it didn't run out and we continued endless
human expansion? Would any other life on this planet survive the human
onslaught? Other creatures suffer extinction at a rate of 80 to 100 species
per day in 2011 from human encroachment. (Source: Norman Meyers, Oxford,
UK)
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- "The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble
of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime....so
I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves
move toward depletion, we will be left with an enormous population...that
the ecology of the earth will not support. The journey back toward non-oil
population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way
that population hyper growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age.
It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened
and we are stuck with it." James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency
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- What if Kunstler is correct? Isn't it interesting that
M. King Hubbert, the world renowned geologist, who predicted that the USA
would drop from 9.0 million barrels pumped daily to 3.1 million barrels
by 1970, proved correct? This is known as the "Hubbert Curve."
His calculations in the Middle East, South America and Mexico show oil
fields draining emptier by the day!
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- In his ground breaking book Peak Everything: Waking
up to a Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg, he addresses limited
water, resources, minerals and metals as our greatest crisis along with
Peak Oil. Is he wrong? Is his scientific research flawed?
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- What about the mathematical deductions of limited oil,
water and resources by Chris Clugston in his work, "The real inconvenient
truth-on American sustainability: Anatomy of a Societal Collapse."
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- Do you think the preacher is correct? Or, do you think
research scientists provide greater gravity to the issue?
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- "As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we
have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this
century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive? As we
both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the
amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected
by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a
Faustian bargain-selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the
moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid." Walter Youngquist,
energy
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- I've mentioned a few of the top world experts that tell
us that we're like a brakeless train heading toward a washed-out bridge.
Dr. Albert Bartlett, physicist at the University of Colorado, said, "Humanity
does not understand the exponential growth equation. It cannot continue
and I am not optimistic about the future." (Source: www.albartlett.org)
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- Fellow Americans, within the next 24 years, if our Congress,
presidents and your silence continue unabated, your children will see 72
million immigrants added to the United States. All totaled, we will add
100 million people to the USA by 2035-a scant two dozen years from now.
They will all be fighting for gasoline, food, water and resources. Along
with your children!
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- In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video,
"Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls", Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG,
graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes
to see for yourself:
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded
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- "Immigration by the numbers-off the chart" by
Roy Beck
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- This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results
of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability
for future generations: in a word "Mind boggling!" www.NumbersUSA.org
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.comHe is the author of: America
on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1
888 280 7715
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