The End Times
The End Times The long awaited collapse of the system has become an article of faith among alienated vanguardists. Strangely enough, I rarely see James […]
Long Emergency
Energy tsunami coming, ex-policymakers warn
Here. WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress […]
$4 gas helping revitalize small towns
It costs around $24 dollars now to travel round trip from Comer to Montgomery; $16 from Eufaula to Dothan or Columbus. A year ago, the price was […]
T. Boone Pickens’ New Ad Campaign
T. Boone Pickens: “This is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of.” His new website. A longer explanation of his plan.
Where We’re At
Kunstler’s latest blog entry: Every time I saw a car towing a motorboat this holiday weekend, I wondered what was going through the head of […]
Is global shipping slowing drastically?
Via Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. International trade is slowing down as fuel prices raise shipping costs. More here on a general slowdown of transportation in the UK.
Wal-Mart Going Local
Higher transportation costs are forcing Wal-Mart into the locally grown food business. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon […]
Employers Cut Workers for a Sixth Month
62,000 jobs were lost last month. Inflation is at 4.1%. The softening job market has prompted millions of families to reduce their spending, further hurting […]
Friendship in a Post Carbon World
At Nature Bats Last, a discussion of friendship and the ramifications of Peak Oil. I also drifted out of contact with long time friends due to […]
Racialists Absorbing Paleos
John Zmirak fears a racialist takeover of the paleoconservative movement. There is probably something to this. Anyone can see the progressive racialization of the commentariat at TakiMag […]
Auto Sales Plunge
The full significance of the death of the personal automobile (and the airlines) is not parsed out here: Sales fell 28 percent at the Ford […]
The Greater Depression
The latest from Jim Kunstler: What’s happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the […]
Friedman Getting Scared
Flat earther Thomas Friedman is getting alarmed about the unfolding economic crisis: My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — […]
Drill, Drill, Drill
Jim Kunstler on the cornocopian idiot Larry Kudlow. Robert Reich has already pointed out that drilling off the coasts of California and Florida will not […]
Peak Oil = 85 million barrels per day
T. Boone Pickens: Peak Oil has been reached. Why am I not surprised that the implications of this are not being discussed on CNBC?
The Future of PC
Pat writes: A new orthodoxy is arising. Freedom’s finest hour may be behind us. The old orthodoxy will collapse as the Boomers retire. In the […]
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Some nasty predictions about suburbia are coming true. Yandell’s marriage isn’t falling apart: his neighborhood is. Devastated by the subprime mortgage crisis, hundreds of homes […]
Crude Sets New Record
Crude was up over $139 earlier today before coming off a record high. Meanwhile, McCain proposes we drill for more oil, a futile throwback to […]
Gas Shortages in the Southeast
Jim writes: Chances are, they will occur first in the Southeast states because oil exports from Mexico and Venezuela feeding the Gulf of Mexico refineries […]