Jay Hanson
Economists everywhere are wrong: perpetual economic motion is impossible! Imagine having an automobile with a ten-gallon tank, but the nearest gas station is eleven gallons away. You cannot fill your tank with a trip to the gas station because the trip burns more gas than you can carry—it’s impossible for you to cover your overhead (the size of your bankroll and the price of the gas are irrelevant). You might as well plant flowers in your auto because you are “out of gas”—forever. It’s the same with the American economy: if we must spend more-than-one unit of energy to produce enough goods and services to buy one unit of energy, it will be impossible for us to cover our overhead. At that point, America’s economic machine is “out of gas”—forever. Nearly everyone in the world (all governments, and all but a handful of scientists, etc.) has accepted the economists’ perpetual-motion machine. Even the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the USA Department of Energy has no idea how much energy is required to produce energy (“net energy”). Nor does the EIA have any idea how long energy can be produced (“peak”)! But even a child can understand that machines do not run on money—they run on energy (“Daddy’s car needs gas!”)—and available energy is a prerequisite for producing more energy. Once the truth is told, no one will ever believe that the energy experts in the Clinton Administration were just too stupid to see it coming; too stupid understand these simple energy principles that can be taught to a child… The sudden—and surprising—end of the fossil fuel age will stun everyone—and kill billions. Once the truth is told about gas and oil (it’s just a matter of time), your life will change forever. Envision a world where freezing, starving people burn everything combustible—everything from forests (releasing CO2; destroying topsoil and species); to garbage dumps (releasing dioxins, PCBs, and heavy metals); to people (by waging nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional war); and you have seen the future.