And exactly what will the Bush family and the Bushies in america do. My guess is that some other Rethuglikkkan politician will find a way to give even more of our tax dollars to the oil companies, after all they just are not rich enough. Their mindset, the republican mindset is that tax payer dollars must be put to proper use and that is the taxpayer dollars must go to corporate welfare.
After WWII corporations gave 43% to support government while the american taxpayer contributed 57% to the costs of running our government. Now the figures are that Corporations give 7% while we the taxpayers have taken from us 97% of the cost to run not our, but their government; since 'we the people' no longer own or control our government, thanks to the rethuglikkkans, the party of thugs and bullies. They'll get their comeuppance one day. Probably when the Dems take over all branches of government and will they ever and endlessly scream. I for one will give them no quarter as the rethugs have done since Pope John Paul II put Reagan in the WH and delivered America over to the republican party, which as Karl Rove said will destroy the democratic party, ending our system of checks and balances and converting America into a "Totalitarian Republican Jihadist Theocracy" of endless war-death-kill for profit on behalf of Big Religion, both catholic, my religion, and evangelical fundamentalism. Nearly all catholics are fundies. I AM, the last catholic in America who is not a fundamentalist.

Chapter 2 of Plan B 2.0 points out that we are already past peak oil. I certainly hope so.

I do not recall the book in which I read a side comment that when we manage to get rid of our oil habit, the Middle East can slip back into the obscurity it so richly deserves. It was probably either Plan B 2.0 or The Weather Makers.

bobt: Rethuglikkkan -- ROFLMAO!! Great one. I am an antitheist myself. I have a suggestion for the new name of our Rethuglikkkan Theocracy. I suggest The Democratic Peoples' Republic of the Christian States of America.

I don't know about the proportion of Catholics that are fundamentalist (i.e. think with their fundament) but doubt it's any higher than some of the other flavors of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion (deliberately singular).

These texts were written by people who were, by definition, ignorant of all that we have learned in the last 1500 years or so. I can't imagine why so many people turn to these superstitions for their advice on life. Certainly though, the literal interpretation of any of them is highly dangerous to human life, and quite likely dangerous to our entire species' survival, not to mention many other species more beautiful than ours.

Ah good, that was fun, another excuse to turn a completely unrelated blog post into a forum for religion bashing. It's so cathartic.