I’ve been taking a close look at The Pickens Plan. T. Boone Pickens, the 80-year-old oilman, is pushing this idea. “I’ve been an oilman all my life,” Pickens says. “But this is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of.”
The Pickens Plan is to use wind power to generate electricity. The plan calls for [...]
Because of their size, big disasters can take some time developing. It’s all a matter of perspective: the sheer size and mass of a train going off the tracks at high speed can look, from a distance, like it’s happening in slow motion. Yet if you’re in the middle of it there is no time [...]
Peak Oil Blues: 26 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW To Manage Your Anxiety
#23: LIMIT THE ‘BAD NEWS.’ If you find yourself checking the news more than once a day, give it a break, for your own sake. Take a “news holiday” once in a while. Go be around something beautiful, like art or nature.
Or [...]
Everywhere I look, the headlines indicate bad times ahead.
July 11: FDIC takes over IndyMac Bancorp as the California lender collapses under soaring losses
July 13: US Treasury rescue of ‘basically insolvent’ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac an ‘unmitigated disaster’ according to some
July 14: General Motors to announce job cuts, factory closings
Washington Mutual and National City Corp [...]