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Posted by HarshawJ in Musings
on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 09:08:43 AM
in a "intimidated" mood.

Gasoline Conspiracy

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Posted by HarshawJ on
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 03:08:00 PM

You make a good point or three. If China does become number one in the world oil market, then yeah, we will be paying more. But that does make the US want to get off its' collective ass and do something about it. So, as far as I am concerned, while I will bitch and complain about the high price of gas, I will be happy if we finally do get into alternatave fuels and energies. I do not see a down side to slowly unwinding out dependance on the Mid-East, maybe if we did not care about it, we would have less involvement with it and then can really leave the "arabs" to their own dimise. If we pull out, and I do mean all the way out and not buy from them, not have anything to do with them, they will collapse sooner rather than later, and hopefully not in an incadecent glow that would get us too. Then there will be no problems and the world can be a better place.

Posted by HarshawJ on
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 04:08:10 PM

The upshot to a widening economy will eventually be a global economy, where it will no longer be prudent to blow people up without hiting your own interests as well.

Someone asked why Europe does not seem to have the problem. I think they do just don't really know it or understand it. But here is the thing, it is going to take a moe stable world political situation before we can have a global economy. And once that happens, prices and demand will be more stable as well since you will be working with a system that does not "exchange" between economies. It will not matter if the goods are good ol US or from China, one econimy, one set of prices. Variations of shipping and manufacturing are offset through a global theater and thus more stable. Eventually I see the US opening up our agriculture abilities to feed the world while Africe opens up mineral exploitation, and Asia opens up to manufacturing. Sectors of the world best suited for a particular industry work it for the betterment of all. No one starves, everyone has the basics, and when that happens, everyone becomes happy and that is that.

Want to stop wars? Feed the people involved. Watch how fast the issue become meaningless in the face of simple existance and the relieve of having to scrape up food to just live.

Posted by HarshawJ on
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 04:08:50 PM

Right, there are some issues to iron out. But in a global economy these things become less "profitable" becaue the abundance of goods is so plentiful (thus less valuable.) I suspect there will always be room for greed, but the subjegation of populations to promote someone greed may become less profitable, and there may be easier ways of being greedy. Also, with a global economy comes a smaller world, less places to hide if you think about it.

Posted by HarshawJ on
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 06:08:56 PM

To quote my favorite author, Robert A Heinlein,

"Never appeal to a mans better side, money works better. Besides, he may not have a better side."

There is a side of me that want to think the best of human nature, and then there is the realist. The things I describe above are not altruistic, although they may seem to be on first read. In fact, with a world economy would come a world security force of some sort, thus, hopefully a self enforcing system. I of course am being hopeful here.

"Ach Captain, I cannawt get it working, someone has shoved a wienner in the works... by the by, would you happen to have some mustard up there?"

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