Reply #7: Yeah... [View All]

the petroleum peak is hardly the determinant, it's just the raison de guerre for our latest round of imperial adventuring. In Cuba and Haiti, it was sugar; in the Phillipines, rubber; and so on through all of the past century's lesser wars. Right now, it's oil, but only because oil is now the primary resource American industry needs that America doesn't supply enough of. And as both parties have a vested interest in continued economic growth, which is directly related to the success of American corporations, then this sort of thing will continue into the foreseeable future...seems that things haven't changed much since Rutherford B. Hayes said "we no longer have government of, by, and for the people. We now have government of, by and for corporations." And that was back in the 1870's.