[Gasification] Energy Crisis? Mass Die Off? Blahaha

[Peter Singfield]

Look -- your house is on fire -- can't you smell the smoke??

This is major belt tightening time -- forget trying to find alternatives to
maintain a to rich status quo -- wake up -- smell the smoke!!

Time to move out of the energy fast lane!!

Tom T says it best:

"The best thing to happen to the US economy is if the Chinese and others
stopped buying US debt and we couldn't sell out our future. We would be a
third world country right away. The pain and suffering which would follow
would put the gov't on the right footing after a while. Civilizations arise
from stoicism and fall in epicureanism"

That can be stated as an "involuntary" belt-tightening.

A controlled -- self imposed -- belt-tightening would be much more
preferable -- but be that as it may.

One really has to wake up and smell the smoke -- in any event -- to make
the proper moves in the right direction.

Some smoke is appended -- just to remind you that something is in fact on
fire.

There is great confusion on what proper moves to have a relatively
prosperous future are all about.

Some believe just stacking up enough of a fortune -- even if not in US
dollar -- gold -- foreign currency -- investments (preferably off-shore --
fright money is a huge deal these days -- we are  swimming in it here in
Belize right now) -- etc -- is the best way.

Others believe that learning to live comfortably in a self sustainable
manner is the answer. Or by self induced belt tightening we can ease our
way through "anything".

I am of the second school of thought -- so are a few others on this list.

I have arrived to the conclusion that those of us of the second school
smell smoke better than those of the first.

One last suggestion -- 

Vermont should benevolently succeed from the Union and become a self
governing "protectorate" taking no more "welfare" in any form from the rest
of the republic -- thus not being required to be taxed by the republic.

Vermont should then borrow one Billion dollars from Chavez to build the
world's largest and best solar cell factory -- and end up selling for
prices no other factory can compete with -- thus dominating the global
market place in an item that will continuously become of great demand --
everywhere -- no matter what!!

Vermont is a low population state -- but no problem -- they can import
industrious workers from all points in Latin America.

And base their currency directly to gold -- 

I am a true Yankee Trader to!!

Tom T would probably then move to Vermont -- and many others just like him.

It is not about what can be done -- it is all about what will never be done!

I owned and operated a business through four "recessions" and learned one
sure thing from that experience:

The harder you deny -- the harder you eventually fall!!

Never mind where I was -- where I am now -- just understand this -- I have
a house -- a shop -- a small farm -- a very productive business or two or
three -- and believe this or not -- I pay everything cash in advance -- and
do not owe one copper to anyone or any thing!

That is my "armor" -- and I laugh at the puny attempts at insults -- having
been there -- done that -- and knowing what comes after.



Peter/Belize

************************some smoke**********************

Extracted from a German article ---

The US economy now has severe and intractable structural problems arising
from massive and universal indebtedness which ranges across the spectrum
from extremely high levels of personal indebtedness and then through high
corporate debt levels and then on up to the State and Federal level. A
highly geared life based on maxing out credit opportunities has become the
norm across all strata of US society, but naturally such a way of life is
not without risk. For all players, from the ordinary guy on the street
trying to pay his huge mortgage and keep up with his credit card payments,
right up to the Fed and the government, the specter of a liquidity gridlock
and a deflationary implosion is understandably the thing to be feared more
than anything, even eventual hyperinflation, and the thing that needs to be
kept at bay. Who was responsible for this mess?  - principally the
government and the Fed, but essentially everybody - including every
corporation and private individual who has run a highly geared operation or
lifestyle based on credit. The essential point to grasp here is that there
is now no way back, no way to return to a life of financial propriety. The
flood gates were opened long ago and structural indebtedness has reached
such extreme levels that any attempts to rein it in and bring it under
control would quickly result in a liquidity gridlock and an inflationary
implosion. A monster has been created with an insatiable appetite, and the
Fed now has no choice but to keep feeding it.