tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post1038431191432533130..comments2023-12-01T16:56:04.415+11:00Comments on Peak Energy: EndgameBig Gavhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682404837426502876noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-87145340924709474052010-02-08T01:38:10.580+11:002010-02-08T01:38:10.580+11:00RE: Kinda over Doomers
It is impossible to look a...RE: Kinda over Doomers<br /><br />It is impossible to look and absorb all the accurate info without being involved in the doom community. There are some brilliants minds working there with VERY compelling and accurate information.<br /><br />Yet by the nature of their academics and professional fields they are typically ashiest or agnostic.<br /><br />While others (newbies) are just hyper data googlers trying to find the hidden conspiracy theory for everything that leads to TEOTWAWNI.<br /><br />Like all sources it is key to Balance all groups.<br /><br />And Hey, "I get it":<br />In risk training class, I do a scenario where people plug in all the know 'probabilities' for 'fatalities' into a model that predicts outcomes based on their hobbies, lifestyle, job, community, travel, diet, industrial influence and family history.<br /><br />No one had a predictable lifespan of more than a 'few more years'<br /><br /><br />Live in the moment and make that moment count for something.<br /><br />It is a fact you will die, everything else is debatable - so get over the doom of it.EHS Directorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11768405187596006599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-72024802171158926342010-02-06T12:02:15.431+11:002010-02-06T12:02:15.431+11:007 US States That Are Worse Off Than Greece, Portga...<b><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/many-us-states-are-bigger-default-risks-than-europes-piigs-2010-2" rel="nofollow">7 US States That Are Worse Off Than Greece, Portgal, Ireland, And Spain</a></b><br /><br />The seven states to make my list are California, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Each has a population above 8 million people. <b>Each has had to borrow more than a billion dollars</b>, so far, to pay claims out of their now <b>bankrupt unemployment insurance fund</b>. Also, each state currently registers broad, <b>underemployment above 15% </b> as indicated by the U-6 measure for the States. And finally, each state is a large net importer of either oil, natural gas, electricity, or all three of these energy sources.<br /><br />Were it not for peak oil, gasoline prices would have fallen to a dollar during this depression as oil returned to the lows of the late 1990’s–if not even lower.<br /><br />21st century energy prices overlaid on a 20th century economy? That’s no fun at all. The mainstream economics profession, perhaps unsurprisingly, still does not pay enough attention to the interweaving of long-term stagnant wage growth, higher energy inputs, and the resulting credit creation that OECD countries took as the solution to resolve that squeeze. Given that <b>one of out of eight Americans takes food stamps</b>, a visit to states like Illinois, Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina would reveal that the difference between 15 dollar oil and 75 dollar oil, and 2 dollar natural gas and 5 dollar natural gas is large.<br /><br />My seven states of energy debt represent a full 35% of the total US population.SPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12467929366702367892noreply@blogger.com