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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><I><SPAN
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to blame for $4.00 a gallon gas? How about $10.00 a gallon?<?XML:NAMESPACE
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class=MsoNormal><B><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“At
this point, it’s almost certainly too late to manage a transition to
sustainability on a global or national scale, even if the political will to
attempt it existed, which it clearly does not. Our civilization is in the early
stages of the same curve of decline and fall as so many others have followed
before it. What likely lies in wait for us is a long, uneven decline into
a new Dark Age from which, centuries from now, the civilizations of the
future will gradually emerge.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Who can we blame for
$4.00 a gallon? Answer: every last one of us cotton pickin’ American gas
guzzling 8-cylinder SUV drivers, trucks, trains, boats and planes! We burn
20 million barrels a day in the United States. The world’s humans burn 84
million barrels daily. That’s 29.9 billion barrels of oil annually
worldwide! Whopping carbon footprint! Hey! Did you think a
finite resource like ‘endless oil’ could go on forever? That’s like
sucking on an ‘endless milkshake’ straw at the local diner! It eventually
runs dry and you suck on air.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Are you upset? You gotta’
be kiddin’ me! The “Hubbert Curve” told us that “Peak Oil” would hit the
United States in 1970 when geologist M.King Hubbert predicted a drop from nine
million barrels to three million barrels daily. It came to
pass!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18.75pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Peak Everything: Facing a
Century of Declines</SPAN></I></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>by Richard Heinberg tells us we face
rapidly declining supplies of metals, water, oil, coal, minerals and most other
resources we rape the Earth to acquire for our rapacious human activities.
Are we preparing with such simple plans like 10 cent deposit/return laws on all
metals, plastics and glass. Not a chance!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18.75pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 13.5pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">If you think $4.00 a
gallon today hits your wallet, think again. Chris Steiner wrote<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><B><I>$20 Per Gallon</I></B>, which
predicts with deadly accuracy a steady rise of prices from $5.00 to $10.00 to
ultimately $20.00 per gallon before mid-century. Why? Answer:
we may have only burned 50 percent of the Earth’s oil supplies, but it’s father
down, harder to get at and more expensive to extract. Thus, costs
rise!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Experts knew it would
happen, but since 1970, we just kept burning oil like there was no
tomorrow. Tomorrow happens to be today! How’s that big Ram truck
with eight powerful cylinders doing for you at $4.00 a gallon. Peak Oil
will prove a game-changer!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">We failed to incorporate
conservation in any form. We failed to plan. We failed ourselves and
future generations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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class=MsoNormal><B><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“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 </SPAN></I></B><B><I><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">“An immutable fact of
expensive gasoline: Americans will find someone to blame,” said Kimberly
Strassel of the Wall Street Journal. “We can expect in the coming months
to hear many sober analysts attempt to explain the complex reasons for rising
oil prices: inflation, Middle East tremors, growing demand. Expect, too, for all
those reasons to vanish behind what most Americans will see as the far more
obvious cause: President Obama's regulatory assault on domestic oil and gas
production.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Obama, Congress and the
American people dance around the fact that we failed to plan. We face an
unsustainable “Peak Oil” consumption conundrum. We created a “Faustian
Bargain” with the inevitable “Hobson’s Choice” for the final answer. That
‘answer’ forces us to take only two choices left to us: pick door number 1 and
you get to walk over a cliff with no parachute; pick door number 2 and you fall
into quicksand with no lifeguard.</SPAN><O:P></O:P></P>
<P
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">In January 2008,
candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade
plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Steven Chu, now Secretary
of Energy, told this newspaper in the same year: "Somehow, we have to figure out
how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Currently,
$8.00 a gallon in UK!</SPAN><O:P></O:P></P>
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class=MsoNormal>In his book<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><B><I>The Long Emergency</I></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>by James Howard Kunstler, he predicted
that China would burn 98 million barrels of oil daily by 2030. They stick
six million new cars on their highways every year—so they will reach that burn
rate in 19 years. <O:P></O:P></P>
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class=MsoNormal>However, the planet will be coughing up only empty ‘stuff’ like
you do at the end of your ‘endless milkshake’ when you suck on ‘nothing
left’.<O:P></O:P></P>
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class=MsoNormal>What can we do?<O:P></O:P></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
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class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive
change-over to two and four cylinder cars<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push for
electric and solar cars<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push for
wind and solar energy<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push
conservation on all fronts<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push for
walking centric cities<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push for
mass transit<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>Massive push to
ride bicycles!<O:P></O:P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal>As the USA adds 3.1 million people annually, net gain, to rise
from 312 million to 400 million by 2035—more demand, less oil—higher prices and
lucky to have any oil at all! Finally, we need a massive push for
population stability by the United States to lead the rest of the countries of
the world. We cannot keep adding human numbers if we expect to survive the
21<SUP>st</SUP><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>century.<O:P></O:P></P>
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