The Coming Oil Crash

[LastVoter]

But wouldn't this lead to gasoline prices above $5 a gallon a couple years later? There is no way this is sustainable. The only good news about this would be a potential revolution in Russia that would lead to a more left-wing (and hopefully democratic) regime.

I'm not obsessed with peak oil, I just enjoy making fun of the clowns that think it will inevitably end civilization as we know it.

It's quite probable that only the 1% will be able to afford SUV's and obesity in 20 years, as 'muricans will be forced into smaller cars and more trips by foot/bike. Or is that not the kind of end civilization you are talking about?

[LastVoter]

It's quite probable that only the 1% will be able to afford SUV's and obesity in 20 years, as 'muricans will be forced into smaller cars and more trips by foot/bike. Or is that not the kind of end civilization you are talking about?

Wouldn't that be a good thing?

Yes, but your ideology of interventionist Libertarianism and right-wing economics would be destroyed(unless we have a doomsday collapse... lol). Also opebo reasserts that he is a fat in this thread.

[LastVoter]

One more time in English.

The less fat and less SUV driven world would piss off opebo, you and the like because of side effects.

[LastVoter]

Yeah, I have no idea what you're trying to say.  I would certainly not be "pissed off" with fewer SUVs on the road and less fat people.  I really don't care if people are fat or not, but SUVs are a danger to me and everybody else.  The drivers of them (except for the very very few people who actually need them) are selfish asshats that, at best, are just driving them to be cool and at worse are driving them because "they want a big, tall vehicle because it's (supposedly) safer".

Let's try it again. There will be a) less libertarians b) less neo-cons, assuming oil prices rise at a moderate rate(no more than $1/year). Considering that most libertarians come from fat people in SUV's and basements.

[LastVoter]

Ahhh, I get it now.  You're one of "those" people.  Enjoy your stereotypes sir!

Taking forum demography to the extreme.