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Tom Tunes's avatar

Although I share your enthusiasm for bicycling, there is much you write today that I don’t agree with. 1) Apparently you subscribe to the Peak Oil theory and the idea that humans are exhausting it and other natural resources. And you make no distinction of who may be using these resources, apparently lumping all humans together. Peak oil, to me, is a highly questionable theory at best, because of a few simple facts: the actual known reserves of oil are a carefully guarded secret, so who can actually know what they are? Additionally, and very importantly, the price of oil is given in US dollars. The increasing price of oil reflects the decline in value of the US dollar, not an increase in the price of oil that one would expect from a decline in supply in the face of continued demand. If one uses the real price of oil measured in dollars, there is very little, if any, change since the 1960’s (the era of 25 cent/gallon gasoline). If oil seems expensive because it takes a larger portion of the family budget it is because workers’ wages are not keeping up, and hence they have less disposable income, making all natural resources, including oil, more expensive. If one prices oil in gold the price is a straight line parallel to time on the X-axis. That relationship, more than anything else, indicates that Peak Oil is just another propaganda myth.

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Fritz Freud's avatar

Do you know of "Waiting for Godot"? by Samuel Becket?

It is a bit like "Waiting for the Apocalypse" by the Christians.

The big problem is... if we know it will happen we can undo it... we can unmake it before it is ever made.

All it takes is courage..

We should simply say: "We will not comply and we stand in your way"... and this will undo the curse.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/we-will-not-comply

If you knew the Titanic would sink... why bother taking the trip?

We know what they plan... and we can take ourselves out of the equation.

Let the Financial System collapse... it don't work anyway not for us.

They don't own me...

We can simply cull them and take all they own which is us and take it back.

Simple as this.

All it takes is courage.

Why wait for a bad thing to happen when one man can make all the difference in this world?

Courage is contagious.. and so is fear..

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