JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Brian Austin Whitney Blog Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The moment someone moved off the oil grid, their financial problems with the rising cost of gas would disappear. In the case of Scott for example, though 1 year of that would cost 20K in gas, if instead he spent that 20K to buy 2 electric cars, the next year that travel would cost 4K or less. In addition, other commodities would also drop because the cost of travel for everyone would drop by 80% as well. In addition, to help with the pain of that initial investment, you'd get to write it off on taxes and continue to get tax credits for your part which would put even less burden on you. As the dollar dramatically increases in value, your buying power for all goods would increase so that all goods from China from other countries would plummet.

I liken this to getting a shot at the doctors. A quick plunge into your skin may hurt a lot, but a slow push and grind is much worse. Same if they are removing some tape from your skin and it rips off your hair. Right now we're ripping off the hair with no end in site. In fact, the area under the patch of tape is growing larger and larger by the day and without some plan, it will eventually cover our entire body for a life long slow pull.

Is all of this simply an intellectual excercise? It might be. Don't all solutions start that way? Right now we seem to simply be on autopilot being steered by vicious special interests who are cashing in on our present and future to enrich themselves while flipping us the bird and laughing to the bank with our quality of life, retirement funds, discretionary income and for many, our health and happiness.

Depression? You better believe it. Imagine having one without any possible recovery in sight. Imagine having to hand over our entire sovereignty to the Chinese and Arab countries that already hold us hostage over oil and will only continue to buy up our buildings, real estate and financial markets. Imagine when the bottom continues to fall on the value of the dollar to the point of no return? You know, where you have to take a wheel barrel of money to the store to buy bread. Search history.. it's happened before. The only solution at that time is an all out world war (see Germany). If you can't pay your creditors and you can't afford the resources you need, all that is left is to take them from others by force. As someone above said, it's definitely like the frog in the cookpot.. we're all slowly boiling to death but no one wants to exert the energy needed to jump out so instead we're just sitting and sitting while the heat goes up. I think it's time to rip the tape off, feel the brief pain, and let the wound heal completely in the open air instead of letting it fester underneath while we agonize.

But that's just my opinion... I could be right.

Brian