Energy Politics

Scanning the internet, I came across this odd website devoted to discussing the world after the oil crash. Now, apart from the usual defeatist rants about how production can never increase, we’re already in post-peak and that we’ll enter wars for the last drops, the site seems like it was designed to hawk a bunch of post-apocalyptic survival guides.

Really!  You may be interested in “The Urban Homestead,” which happily teaches you how to turn your home into a survival center. Or you can buy one of the solar panels that will no doubt power all the electrical devices that will no longer be produced following society’s breakdown. Hey, where’s the guide for showing you how to set up defensive positions to defend your home from the marauding gangs of pillagers who will control the highways after society’s collapse?

Oh wait, they have those too. Darn.

The site seems to be well-linked, referencing several mainstream news stories to support its bleak view. Still, I’m not quite ready to start tricking out my car with machine gun turrets and other “Mad Max” junkyard chic just yet. Something about this site just seems rather frightful. Not as frightful as the idea of Tom Laughlin still trying to make another “Billy Jack” movie, but frightful just the same. I know that movies like “No Blade of Grass,” “A Boy and His Dog” and “The Quiet Earth” play to our fears that the end of the world is just a heartbeat away, but how many times in history has man risen to the occassion and found a solution to a major dilemma?

There’s still great challenges to overcome. Websites like these have already thrown in the towel and are patiently awaiting the vermin inheriting the Earth.

–Stephen Payne, Editor, Oil and Gas Investor This Week; www.OilandGasInvestor.com; spayne@hartenergy.com

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