Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Oil Safari - Chicago Tribune Broadband

FINALLY "IT" HITS THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA!
THE TROUBLE IS IN YOUR GAS TANK.
AND CIVILIZATION IS AT STAKE!

Incredible stuff watching this movement take hold and gain momentum and good to see it getting out so broadly across the country.

War figures in so many of these kind of important news reports that the daily condition could foster change in this country; it maybe radically faster than the elected leaders can keep up with, faster than the left can quantify or analyse about, traveling through the grapevines to the very core of the peoples' consciousness.

The conditions for something revolutionary among the people could be growing.

The Chicago Tribune news story covered below is one of the most clearly written and easy to understand examples of important journalism your friends and relatives can read, watch or listen to today.

It begins with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter mopping floors and sweeping parking stalls as he dissects where the gas comes from at a local filling station outside of the Windy City.

The places, people and things get more and more alarming for the viewer as the story takes hold. Reading the original series of newspaper articles (also available on the same page) makes it clear that the collapse could possibly be very quick and catastrophic. The Hirsch Report that detailed the marginalized ability of government's response is cited.

Audio bites of Kunstler and Simmons "debating peak oil" is hilarious for the obstinate notions expressed by the unlimited growth crowd on the other side.

Reminds me of some of my Johnson county friends with their cars, kids and mortgages. Deep denial, Republican or Democrat "it" makes no difference energy scarcity is here.

Also interesting, a former Saudi Aramco official takes the "peakist" side. I don't know how much clearer Matthew Simmons can be for the dunderheads out there on the highways.

The twelve part segments load up while a counter clicks along with the number of barrels consumed in the U. S. while the video plays. A million and a half for my time watching the sections, reading while waiting for the screen to load up.

Even with a pretty fast connection the time waiting is a bit annoying. The "Read the story" section would be advisable if you have anything slower than DLS. The article alone is worth the stay.

Click below and take a trip to the convenience store down the street.

It will be fearful, because the horror pours forth from the petroleum energy base that our civilization has operated on for the last 150 years.

Check your denial at the gas station's coffee bar, the trip home is going to be rocky and dark.

Click. Oil Safari Chicago Tribune news Broadband

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