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POPSEverything, but EVERYTHING depends on energy We have no process or system for allocating or rationing energy or the resources is creates. The blunt instrument is price alone which, in the end, says that the needs and requirements of those with money predominate over every other need of every other person on the planet. You want revolution? Great way to get to it.
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POPSAnother peak? As the cost of food skyrockets for many reasons, including shortages, the cost of inputs to industrial food production are coming under stress. A 30% rise in a year is serious, 100% in a week is a mania, or major panic. We have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in so many areas, when they all do, we could be killed by a shoe shower.
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POPSSays It All If you want to know why we are in such trouble, this little item has everything. Cut work on footpaths and cleaning but get ready to gear up for a "world class" Rugby festival. Yep, that will save our butts for sure.
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POPSPeak Oil? Don't ask the "experts" Falling big car sales, bus and train ridership up, airlines in trouble all over, $1,000 fuel surcharges. The pollies and the oil producers and the pundits may be fighting about PO, but it looks like the rest of us get it.
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POPSRelentless Working Out One of the reasons we were happy to return to NZ from Australia was that we are not convinced that Australia has food security. More evidence
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POPSRBS Says Duck and Cover This is not some random blogger, this is the Royal Bank of Scotland. The words Full fledged crash don't get used lightly at this level.