The New Isolationists

“AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE. IF WE FALTER, AND LOSE OUR FREEDOMS, IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES.”
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN -

THE NEW ISOLATIONISTS:
IMMEDIATE TROOP WITHDRAWALS & BASE CLOSURES ABROAD,
MILITARIZE OUR BORDERS, IMPEACH OUR INEPT LEADERS &
DEMAND TRUE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE PROGRAMS NOW!

By Michael Caddell, North Jefferson County, Kansas

THE long decline of this civilization’s petroleum based energy supply is at hand. The recent production collapse of the second largest oil field in the world was reluctantly reported last month from Mexico. That “elephantine field” named Cantarell is the second biggest supplier of imported oil to our country behind Canada and will prove to mark the beginning of a geopolitical “perfect storm” looming on the immediate horizon for this country and the world.

The first cold gusts before the thunderheads arrive are being felt in the rising price of gasoline which comprises over 75% of the total oil consumed in this country. The thunder will soon be heard in this country pounding from the jet bombing missions over Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

The oil producing countries of the Third World are turning their backs on American markets and toward the rapidly developing Indian, Chinese and East Asian markets. Our inept national leaders and the huge budgets of the government have strapped a downsized and out—sourced middle class; soon too belabored to tax, a large angry section of bankrupt, foreclosure fatigued citizens will erupt in open rebellion. The country has been economically hollowed out, pillaged by transnational corporations, flooded with cheap illegal immigrant labor and a berserk “military industrial complex” shipping bombs and troops all over the world.

START RATIONING NOW!
BUILD TRAINS NOT TANKS, BOMBS AND MISSILES!

We may soon witness the collapse of the American Empire on a bigger scale than what the former Soviet Union endured in the mid—eighties. Combined with worldwide energy shortages the crisis will be permanent and unforgiving, from one skyrocketing price spike followed by a demand destruction to yet another price spike. The nation, leaderless and without emergency mobilizations of capital, research and manufacturing on a scale not witnessed since the Great Depression and WWII condemns us and our children’s children to a future of permanent energy and economic crisis.

Cowardly and inept, demagogic and dishonest leaders dominate our elected positions while the chattering, political mudslingers in the media eliminate from public discourse or downplay “peak oil” or “climate change.” They don’t have the guts to tell us how bleak the future is, no popularity votes or program ratings to be had with these issues, it distracts too many from the entertainment soaked culture.

No happy face motorist wants to hear this bad news—or sacrifice; in mandatory ration programs, radical soil and water conservation measures, non—petroleum based local food production drives, or recycling efforts. Too fat, lazy and cluttered, Americans are not ready for this massive change, yet.

It’s “shop till you drop.” And drop we shall and very soon.

The biggest oil field in the world, Ghawar, located in Saudi Arabia is long overdue and may have already started to decline and collapse in daily production. The former exploration chief for Saudi Aramco, Sadad al—Husseini, has recently stated, flatly, that the “supply rates were slowing, but now they are falling.”

What energy specialist William Herbert describes as “the era of low—hanging fruit … has really run its course.” Herbert is co—head of research at Simmons & Co. International, a Houston based energy investment bank. He said that anymore new field discoveries in the world as large as the two above are “slim to none.”

What many describe as “the long fall” downward in U. S. energy supplies will challenge every American man, woman and child now and for the next several generations to come.

A large and growing number of people are preparing and indeed looking forward to what some have called an “energy paradigm shift” and believe that one of the many consequences will be a vast reduction in the monstrous war budgets of what Eisenhower warned of in his 1961 presidential farewell speech about “the military industrial complex.”

THE NEW ISOLATIONISTS

Some are moving, they are the New Isolationists and their numbers are growing in reaction to the disastrous military adventures the nation funds in blood, treasure and bombs abroad and an ever more scarce energy supply.

Demanding immediate troop withdrawals, worldwide military base closures, the immediate securing by the military of the borders, the deportation or naturalization of illegal immigrants and drastic government war budget cuts; is only the beginning of what’s necessary to steer us toward true energy independence.

Nationwide reconstruction of the railroads making affordable mass transit systems and sizeable import tariffs on the flood of cheap goods into the country would lessen the pain of this national transition.

Raising the minimum wage to above the poverty level will be necessary, since only the most menial and manual jobs will be available to many in labor intensive agricultural food production. The 3000 mile head of lettuce or slab of reefer—trucked beef will be so unaffordable that only the rich will be able to eat it on a daily basis.

Locally produced; yard to yard, field to field, farm to market—food will be more about survival, not convenience.

These are the only immediate solutions to this fast growing cycle of never—ending war and energy shock. The Congressional Peak Oil Caucus which Rep. Dennis Moore (D—Ks.) is a member of weakly declared last March that it was going to take the same “nationwide determination of the Apollo Moon Mission” to prepare America for this radical energy change.

The New Isolationists’ demands, as more oil fields collapse and fewer new fields are found, offer the only credible alternative to endless oil wars, or worse, a nuclear WWIII.

It is going to take much more than a manned moon launch and every American must know and prepare now.

SOURCES
“The Trouble is in Your Gas Tank … Oil Safari: Travelogue of Addiction.”
A Chicago Tribune special broadband multimedia report.

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Also for this editorial:
“Mexico: massive oil field in decline.”
Los Angeles Times, Marla Dickerson, August 3, 2006.