banana peels and carrot peelings

Do tell, is the gas crunch hurting you?
I am glad for it, even though it hurts me. I think our society will now have to be less wasteful as compared to the rest of the world, and we will be healthier for it. But if things go too far, we'll all be feudal serfs working on plantations again.

See: CNNMoney coverage of people's gas pains

My housemates drive cars which aren't the most fuel efficient. I formerly owned three but sold my last unit in 2006. (Yay.)

Sell your car while you can?

According to Elaine's blog, the world's industrial powers are weakening their currencies relative to ours, so that we can afford to buy their goods.

This is similar to how Britain made cheap factory-made cotton cloth and sugar and sold it to Indians and Chinese in the time of Ghandi... which killed the domestic industrial base and jobs... causing riots and revolt against imperial Britain.

Sound familiar? Just like Japanese cars and Chinese walmart crap is destroying US industrial jobs... what value-added Things of lasting value do we make in this country now?

- lawyers?
- hedge funds?
- vinyl and plywood seas of housing?
- loans and securities made of bundled housing loans?
- fried chicken?
- starbucks and target every 2 miles?

Are these truly "assets"?

Have you bought an American-made anything lately?  T-shirts from Bangladesh and India, socks from Pakistan, polyester women's fashion shoes from China, Korean cars, Panasonic TVs, Samsung phones, Chinese "Haier" brand washer dryers... and what is America exporting besides jobs? Only commodities like coal and corn and beef. We do have to import that commodity called "oil".

We are becoming the 1930s India... the US is becoming a trade colony!

We are becoming what the Founding Fathers didn't wnat us to be... a colony of England and France... during the 1700s, during the 1900s...

On the other hand, you could say that food will become more valuable than cars and TVs in the long-run. However, we still need oil and gas and water to grow all our food, and the former is running out, which means...

Zombies and Angels! What a fun movie I watched last night, some random b-movie. I also watched the DVD of Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, since I wasn't about to drive to the movie theaters. Not after all the anti-car violence that's fashionable these days.

In any case, I don't drive a car since I sold it two years ago and love walking/cycling. Life seems much simpler now in that sense... slower. I enjoy not motoring about everywhere. And in the Bay Area, we're quite blessed with BART and good weather.

I've gotta go tend my planter box of squash and potatos so until next time, enjoy your walks! So it goes. Might be a good time to sell your extra cars, too, since you don't really want to keep paying for $6.58 gas, right?

By the way, you're invited to come over to my place for the monthly game nights we're doing... every third Friday. Bring your own board/video games! And food!! :)

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This is a fake post, for the alternative reality game www.worldwithoutoil.net
The sentiments are real.