Are we all going to die very soon Cold, Broke, and without energy?

It's all gloom and doom from looking at some of these threads. Is our impending doom coming?

and then we'll be cold, broke and without energy, can't take it with you, I'll tell you what.

Teach us how to safely harness nuclear energy, then we can go out and hate other inhabitants of the Universe.

Good one, soleft. :-D

they would quarantine the Sol system and classify the info about us, for their own good! We'd only bring them down...

I think it depends a lot on the election.

Nope, no sir. A country girl can survive!

but don't think about that. just think about how Bush will save us from terror while depending on Middle Eastern oil.

some will die cold, rich, and without energy. And perhaps many will die cold, ignorant, and without energy. But we can transition to other sources. Only a fool would wait around thinking that bush would move the country in that direction. Or that he has any motivation to, even if he had that ability. Time to grow up and do things for yourself.

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/energy/plan.html

It's not completely thought out but is 10,000 times better than what Bush has. It calls for more funding for research. Personally, I think allowing farmers to grow hemp for methanol would help a lot.

notice the rush to privatize it across the globe.

I am in the process of searching the internet for survival tips, i.e. living off the land. I know we will all become vegetarians but you know a lot of people won't hear of it. Look at what I found:

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Clay Cat
1 small cat
salt & pepper
aromatic spices such as bay leaves, juniper berries or lemon grass (use what is available)
5 garlic cloves
2 oranges, peeled and halved
Dress and clean the cat, leaving the fur on. In the stomach cavity (which should be patted with salt and pepper) place the peeled oranges, peeled garlic cloves and aromatics. Tie the cavity closed or pin closed with little wooden skewers, threaded in and out of the soft belly skin. Coat the whole animal with clay. Do several coats so you have a good shell formed. Put in a hole with hot coals at the bottom and pile hot coals on top of the clay cat. Throw a blanket of banana leaves (or other green vegetation) over the hole. Let bake for 2 or 3 hours while you are tending to other things. The fur will come off when you strip the clay away.


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Barbecued Dog
Dress dog, removing any glands from under the legs. Take off all fat, if any. Cut into serving pieces and parboil in salt water for several hours until tender. Place on spit or grill and pour your favorite sauce recipe over the pieces. Grill, turning as needed to brown evenly. Baste with sauce throughout cooking. (improvised sauce: mix a GI canteen cup of tomato sauce or juice with a GI mess kit spoon of garlic powder, two GI mess kit spoons of worcestershire sauce and a dash of pepper)

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Rat Roulade
2 medium rats, dressed (cut off heads, paws and tails)
4 slices bacon, diced
1 onion, chopped
1-1/2 cups toasted bread cubes
2 tbsp. minced parsley
1/2 tsp. celery seeds
1/4 tsp. sage
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 cup bouillon (1 cup water, 1 bouillon cube)
1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
Saute bacon with onion until onion is tender. Mix in bread cubes, parsley, celery seeds and sage. Season rats with salt and pepper. Stuff each rat with stuffing. Tie rats closed with strings by wrapping around bodies. Place in pan and pour bouillon over roulades. Cover pan and simmer 45 minutes to 1 hour or until rats are tender. Add tomato sauce and cover pan again. Cook for 30 minutes more.

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You guys better keep hold of your pets!

all at the same time.

We are gonna go on.

at the end of the last Ice Age... we can live through this too

somehow

Dramatic climate change and the end of cheap energy will mean the soft life will be priced out of the reach of all but the elite.

the human race will outlive western-style society, by far.

Oil is always running out, the computers are always going to run amuk and take over or else just vengefully cease to work, Jeebus is always coming...and yet none of this ever happens.

Sure one day we'll die, and one day the sun will explode into a red giant and swallow up the earth in a ball of fire, and sometime after that will come the heat death of the universe or some such but I prefer to focus on things under our control.

Squatting Rat has done. Get rid of your credit cards, buy lots of blankets and you'll be ok if you can survive until. 2006