What happens when the Oils Gone?

This did not make me feel any better about present policy but I am sure George is thinking that he will be up in heaven trading shots with the Big Texan before any of this crapola hits the fan.

Could the petroleum joyride — cheap, abundant oil that has sent the global economy whizzing along with the pedal to the metal and the AC blasting for decades — be coming to an end? Some observers of the oil industry think so. They predict that this year, maybe next — almost certainly by the end of the decade — the world's oil production, having grown exuberantly for more than a century, will peak and begin to decline.

It does make one wonder what will happen to our way of life when there is no more petroleum. Or for that matter the intense word wars over petroleum because the so-called leaders of the world are not exactly jumping on the renewable energies bandwagon. And add to that the fact that several oil companies own most of the solar energy patents and we have a recipe for increasing social and economic disaster.

Hmmmmm... I wonder if someone will fall to their knees in front of a blown up Lady Liberty damning those leaders? Of course, Keith Richards and the roaches will always be here, right? Man, if all those drugs can't kill that guy he will be the only one left.

Boy, maybe the rapture or the great Scotty beam me up in the sky doesn't sound so bad. Naw, its still looney who am I trying to kid? As crazy as basing our country's energy policies on a continued oil based economy.