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Day Brown
Guest
Polite discourse appreciated in contrast to the usual flaming.
But lets not forget the costs of shipping cargo to the ship at the dock
in the first place. Its not FOB.
Then too, there is the synergy of the internet, where anyone with
anything to sell no longer needs a big corporation to organize the
means. Small business can spot a local market before the global economy
has figured out it is there. There is likely more faith as well that
future deliveries will be on time and at the agreed price.
The rise to Hubbard's peak oil followed a smooth bell curve, but the
decline is apt to be precipitous; as the price rises, the greed rises,
as the greed goes up so does the use of violence trying to control a
supply of oil, which damages the productive infrastructure.
Which drives down the supply, and drives the price up to re-iterate. One
way to global economy can cope is to abandon less profitable provinces
to anarchy and revolution, stop shipping oil and redirect the remaining
supply to the great power centers. The Byzantines did it for centuries.
So, while the global economy seems to keep going for us, it quit serving
those more obscure poor regions we dont care about. Which will be fine
so long as it does not over look some obscure, but critical, resource
from such a region.
There's also the import of salmonella, e coli, other biologicals, or WMD
and even nukes that will be driving investment in local infrastructure.
But lets not forget the costs of shipping cargo to the ship at the dock
in the first place. Its not FOB.
Then too, there is the synergy of the internet, where anyone with
anything to sell no longer needs a big corporation to organize the
means. Small business can spot a local market before the global economy
has figured out it is there. There is likely more faith as well that
future deliveries will be on time and at the agreed price.
The rise to Hubbard's peak oil followed a smooth bell curve, but the
decline is apt to be precipitous; as the price rises, the greed rises,
as the greed goes up so does the use of violence trying to control a
supply of oil, which damages the productive infrastructure.
Which drives down the supply, and drives the price up to re-iterate. One
way to global economy can cope is to abandon less profitable provinces
to anarchy and revolution, stop shipping oil and redirect the remaining
supply to the great power centers. The Byzantines did it for centuries.
So, while the global economy seems to keep going for us, it quit serving
those more obscure poor regions we dont care about. Which will be fine
so long as it does not over look some obscure, but critical, resource
from such a region.
There's also the import of salmonella, e coli, other biologicals, or WMD
and even nukes that will be driving investment in local infrastructure.