I came upon this link from a link that Patriot for Al Gore provided earlier this evening.

This is really grim. I got caught up in catastrophic thinking during the oil crisis in the mid-seventies and felt pretty foolish for buying into survivalist doctrine. I'm hoping people on the energy independence forum will take a critical look at this link.

after the oil crash

It's a bummer to read, but please help me do the critical thinking.

Yes, I agree, it is easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom.

Read this book:
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/for...ndpost&p=200365

Our purpose for writing this book is to help you, our reader, better understand energy sources and the ways they are made available for your use. While biology, chemistry, and science are commonly taught in secondary schools, colleges, and universities; energy science and technology are only sparingly covered outside college curriculum in engineering or geology. It is important that every citizen be well enough informed to ask candidates for elected office to explain proposed energy policy. Our objective is to provide energy information that can help this interested citizen.

CITIZENS:

Does this problem of running out of oil have to be faced in a manner of doom and gloom?

Why not take a different viewpoint?

Perhaps the age of oil was only given to us to help mankind reach for its true potential. Perhaps it was given as a bridge to newer cleaner forms of energy. The ancient Greeks believed in the four elements, the earth, the air, fire and water.

For thousands of years we have relied upon the one element, “fire” to meet our needs. It is time to more fully utilize the other elements.

The air can blow our wind turbines.

Water can be more fully utilized in small head hydro, the tides and the waves.

The power of the Earth can be tapped for geothermal use and that densest form of energy, nuclear energy, the power of the atom.

Mankind has had it's pessimists since the time we left the caves. Let us not let the pessimism of a few who worry about oil wells running dry drive us back into those long abandoned caves.

Mankind has been given great gifts. We have the power to plan, to think to create and to envision what can be. Isn't it clear that a green clean future can be before us if we only plan, roll up our sleeves and get to work?

I quote Freedom4all's entry:

“The source of this nuclear energy goes back to the time when atoms were formed, long before our solar system existed. All of the atoms that we find in the gases, liquids and solids on earth were assembled in and among the stars from the particles and energy that make up our sun and the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy. The history of energy starts, and ends, with nuclear energy.”

Is there one among you that has not had the thought that perhaps this potential source of energy was not placed here for a reason? Mankind can follow a grand and glorious path if it chooses or mankind can go to ruination.

Let's follow that glorious path.