Hi JD,
Unfortunately the forecast yet again is looking crap for the weekend with rain. Which makes the ground to wet to go to a local spot and I never fly my kites in rain or get them wet, main reason they last longer and stay crispy.
I hear you on the fuel thing, it will be $2 a L by xmas time, which is killing our economy, so many people holding onto dollars and not spending money at the moment very hard to get people to pay their bills.
I watched a news report last night based on world fuel prices we on a world scale are not at the top believe it or not BUT my ears pricked up with I heard that the nations that produce oil, nigeria, and the middle east are paying (ready for this) as little as 5 cents a litre of fuel.
I watched a doco recently on foxtel how for eg places like dubai are building resorts and infrastructure to support their economy after oil is gone, it makes you wonder wether the fuel prices are a last ditched effort to make as much as they can to support their own countrys future, either way you feel F)(*&)(* in the A)(* with your credit card.
Hmm I wrote this scenario down a few days ago, maybe it was therapy after my last fuel bill or maybe I am onto something.
If reality bites....... don't read this next section as I still have a gut feeling it may come to this.
I just flew by earth...... "how's that working out for them"?
Weeel, Remember about 5 snaggletooth's ago they started polluting the galaxy with that greasy substance they discovered and named oil which put a cloud of astro smog around the rings of orion........ its running out fast, we will have our view back before too long. Unfortunately through greed, power and growth have almost used up all of their reserves and you know that argument we had with the fluffypops that went on for years, they have had two of those already WW1, WW2 and I can see another one coming very soon.
Now if we can make the galaxy gazette front page "Earth stops rotating permanently", "Houston we have a problem"
Call me a cynic........ or perhaps I see a scenario on the horizon nobody wants to admit could happen.
86 million barrels of oil we use each day. Although humanity does some stupid things on the whole its denial on a global scale which is our downfall.
So we say its ok by the time oil reserves (20% tune out on that word) run out in 27 years, (another 50% of people tune out) and get back to day to day life just trying to survive and pay bills in 2008, as planing what your going to eat next week would be a challenge for most. Let alone 27 years time. The problem is that LONG before that last barrel of oil gets put next to the Picasso in the Musee du Louvre for humanity to look on in awe the world will grind to a halt as we know it.
How would you get there? How will you view it without lighting, when was the last time you ate I don't think the museum is really on your top 10 at that point?
Sure we have people on the case, brilliant smart people looking for other sources of alternative energy, the problem isn't the ideas and concepts pushed through into production...... its the volume and this is where the future comes unstuck. On a cold winters day the power that is consumed by this country of only 22 million people puts enough strain on the electricity grid that blackouts already happen, picture everybody with our new shiny electric cars tapping into the power grid each night to recharge the battery........... I am sure you get the picture.
Idealy we need nuclear power stations the irony is nobody wants them in 10 years time I think like most things most would wish we had built them years ago , I'd like to put a happy secure spin on it but unlike what you see in the news "she will be right mate", it could be the end of the world as we know it. Humanity built itself on NOT being self sufficient with the discovery of oil, every thing we know and do relies on it. Countries rise and fall from it, I see more falling than rising.
Here is a scenario, long before oil runs out countries will invade other countries to gain control of their oil, this could be the onset of WW3 long before terrorists get to have their day, how are terrorists going to carry out their global plans by walking to their destination in bare feet, Nike ceased production years ago?
Oil is power, as soon as the general public cannot afford it anymore, companies and infrastructure will grind to a halt, food will be in short demand civil unrest will ensue, people will put pressure on their governments to find energy and keep their patch of turf running oiled up which means invading the country next door to fuel their life as they know it to survive.
27 years till its completely run out, if prices continue to rise globally within the next 10 years life could be altered so dramatically we wouldn't know ourselves, is a very real yet scary scenario.
As I write this, on my laptop (oil played a part in the manufacture of that) with a heater on my feat to keep warm (also manufactured by oil) no its not, its electricity..... and how did they make that power plant? with machinery run on oil at a guess?
The domino effect is set in motion, it is catching up with us quicker than what people would wish to admit, while bunnings can still truck in deck-chairs, they are on special this week, I am going to grab a couple, an electric powered blender grab a front seat on the beach and watch the fireworks show on the horizon.
Remember that really bad movie Kevin Costner did called Waterworld with that last ship filled with oil, how unrealistic is it really? The transition to alternate fuel sources on a global level should have started making a change over 30 years ago, not 5 minutes before the fat lady sings, the fat lady by the way lost 30kg through food shortages before her parting performance!
It really feels like the more technologically advanced we get, the closer we appear to get back to the dark ages.
Thank god I fly kites, one day it may be my only form of transport.
The problem isn't alternatives, its trying to cope with the volume which is going to well and truly F()* the world.
ps. Dear Dubai,
I would really like to come and have a holiday in the Middle East on a battery powered 747!
pps.
Pasha Bulker runs aground on Nobbys beach (10 years on, after ships no longer run on diesel) Due to a nuclear reactor breach Newcastle harbor is closed for the next 20,000 years, sorry for any inconvenience and 3 headed locals!
Velocity
> 9 months ago, 10 Jun 2008
