More Bad News... On the Price of Everything...
If it takes energy to produce, it's going to "go up". Sorry boys but that's the way it is. The "silver lining" of this cloud is a long way out but it's there (assuming that we manage to escape the apocalypse in the mean time). It will take a while but the only rational route is to return to making things more "locally" and less "globally". It's gonna take some time and sacrifice because we need to do a lot of long overdue work on stuff like alternate energy sources and rebuilding manufacturing facilities that we have dismantled and sold to China in the form of scrap steel, copper and iron. And we need to pay a lot more attention to how what we do effects the environment. But I think we can rise to the occasion. Well OK, it's also going to take a "small attitude adjustment". What we need is the same kind of "can do" attitude that put a man on the moon. Now if only we had the foresight to have put those resources into "alternative energy"!
I was watching an ad on TV paid for by some big energy company saying how we had enough energy reserves in "clean coal" to power so many millions of homes and cars for sixty years and I found myself thinking "Great"! Sixty years. No problem. That's way off in the future right? So why worry?". GIMMIE A BREAK!!! That's exactly the kind of shortsightedness that got us into this mess in the first place. Our first big wake up call came in the early 70's and that's already almost forty years ago. And we still ain't done squat about it.
Ooo, am I ranting? Heh, heh... sorry.....