Sunday, May 11, 2008

Preterition

In follow-up to my piece on Hillary's gripe with OPEC and in reference to Necessary Roughness, I was going to throw in my own two cents on the subject of peak oil. But after reading numerous websites declaring that civilization will collapse as a result of, well, commodity speculation, I just lost interest. I mean, don't get me wrong, I've long held that while I don't expect to see civilization collapse in my lifetime, I wouldn't be all that surprised. So I'm sympathetic to the homesteader's mindset of living self-sufficiently, just in case. But there's a big difference in mindset between living a simple country lifestyle and filling your basement with astronaut food. And of all the things I can imagine bringing down civilization, a shock in the petroleum market isn't one of them. So there, Peak Oilers, I think you're wrong, but I just don't care enough to bother explaining why in any detail. More vacuum-packed survival rations for you, I guess.


2 comments:

Elephantschild said...

It does smack of the good ole Y2K'ers, just a little.. and we know how "scary" that ended up being.

What was that comment you made the other day about trusting American ingenuity? Necessity breeds invention and all that.

Dan @ Necessary Roughness said...

BCPRS,

Thanks for stopping by NR and linking to the post.

Feel free to drop by and comment any time.