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BK>>  And we still gotta bring back manufacturing, what is the point  of
BK>> the infrastructure if you have no where to go and nothing to  do
BK>> when you get there?

 RW> True, and I'm really thinking the only thing that's gonna
 RW> bring that back is the collapse of the petroleum economy.
 RW> AS long as it can be manufactured and shipped around the
 RW> world as cheaply as it's done today there's no impetus to
 RW> change anything.  AS I said elsewhere in this echo a couple
 RW> of days ago, I expect at least another generation of
 RW> general economic disenfranchisement before this crap
 RW> improves.  Peak oil might actually save us. OR should I
 RW> say, the other side of peak oil.

 I see no good way out of this. In the long run it can work out,
 but that could be decades. Few of us have that many decades
 left.

 Remember some of us said, about Iraq, the war will be easy, the
 peace will be hell? Well, here we go again. Keep your seat belts
 fastened and you hands inside the cars.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... I sold my soul to Satan and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
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