Just in case you think you have it bad.

[PLC1]

Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.

In Cairo, the military is being put to work baking bread as rising food prices threaten to become the spark that ignites wider anger at a repressive government. In Burkina Faso and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, food riots are breaking out as never before. In reasonably prosperous Malaysia, the ruling coalition was nearly ousted by voters who cited food and fuel price increases as their main concerns.

Even in Thailand, which produces 10 million more tons of rice than it consumes and is the world’s largest rice exporter, supermarkets have placed signs limiting the amount of rice shoppers are allowed to purchase.

In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.

Suddenly, that $4 a gallon gasoline doesn't look so bad after all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/americas/18food.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&emc=th

 

[Pidgey]

Ultimately, Peak Oil. Read:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3017/

...and then:

http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events-07-10.html

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

Add this one:

http://www.barnesmarsland.co.uk/OPUS/Inview 51/Peak Oil/peak_oil_phenomenon.htm

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

Upping the ante:

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3898

Looks like a trainwreck up ahead.

Pidgey

 

[PLC1]

Upping the ante:

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3898

Looks like a trainwreck up ahead.

Pidgey

Wow. If we were smart, we'd build nuclear plants, and then sell coal to China.

 

[Pidgey]

They say if all goes well, it takes about 10 years to build a substantial nuclear plant.

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

And, speaking of China, their weather ills are continuing:

http://www.topix.com/news/weather/2008/04/more-bad-weather-for-china

Pidgey

 

[PLC1]

And, speaking of China, their weather ills are continuing:

http://www.topix.com/news/weather/2008/04/more-bad-weather-for-china

Pidgey

Is La nina, or global warming to blame? It shouldn't be too hard to find out. There is a la nina year fairly frequently, which generally results in dry winters here. Just compare the weather in China with the la nina years of the past.

They say if all goes well, it takes about 10 years to build a substantial nuclear plant.

Pidgey

I guess we'd better get started.

 

[Pidgey]

Is La nina, or global warming to blame? It shouldn't be too hard to find out. There is a la nina year fairly frequently, which generally results in dry winters here. Just compare the weather in China with the la nina years of the past.



I guess we'd better get started.

Then get to writing your senators and representatives to tell 'em it's okay and that they better get their a$$e$ on the ball. Scroll down to "NEW ANALYSIS: CARBON MANDATE WOULD HARM CONSUMERS, JOBS AND ECONOMY":

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index....a-23ad-4ad9-cb832daf282c&SuppressLayouts=true

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

This is one of those things that will rear its ugly head later:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/b...0fertilizer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/30/2231223.htm?section=world

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

And in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/business/01econ.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

Pidgey

 

[PLC1]

And in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/business/01econ.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

Pidgey

The US is in a recession brought on mostly by the rise in the price of crude. Many other parts of the world are facing hunger, partly because of the same thing.

It's likely to get worse before it gets better.

 

[Pidgey]

And in Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/business/worldbusiness/01middle.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

The US is in a recession brought on mostly by the rise in the price of crude. Many other parts of the world are facing hunger, partly because of the same thing.

It's likely to get worse before it gets better.

Yeah, it's getting worse:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602099&sid=ambnKPJvPLDg&refer=energy

Pidgey

 

[Pidgey]

And manipulators are not involved:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602099&sid=aX0iaEd9bOMU&refer=energy

Pidgey