Politicians Avoiding Peak Oil Like the Plague

Peak Oil is the third biggest crisis mankind and society is facing behind global warming and nuclear energy and weapons prolification in the last 70 years. Without question, American Capitalism is based on increasing economic growth, construction and sprawl, and vast out of control consumerism. Inexpensive oil is the engine of the ideology and all it consists of. It is becoming quite clear that oil will no longer be inexpensive -- it is actually becoming quite expensive and will increasingly so rather rapidly. The end of the long largely uninterupted reign of American economic dominance globally is quickly coming to an end, and with it also comes a serious diminishing of American political and military strength across the planet as well. Many economists and historians see parallels in the American future with those experienced by prior world powers such as Britain, France, Spain, and Venice. This future is not necessarily bad, as the citizens in those nations live simpler, richer lives with a quality of life that is more just and fair with greater equality and peace of mind than when their nations were world powers.
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http://www.alternet.org/environment/85841/?page=entire
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http://www.truthout.org/article/130-oil-is-that-a-tipping-point
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