Preparing for the end of Cheap Energy

We all know it's coming, and there is likely no chance to stop it. Write your congressman and all that, but this blog is about SURVIVING through and THRIVING throughout the end of cheap energy. Let's toss in global warming, economic upheaval, and various other major calamities facing civilization.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

peak oil caused the Soviet collapse?

a precursor of things to come?

This commentator makes the observation that it wasn't Cold War policy, or inefficiencies of Communism, or any other crap like that. It's simply what happens on a "micro" scale when oil peaks:

http://www.energybulletin.net/19837.html

I always wondered how the USSR could have collapsed so quickly & completely, with so little warning. Now I can imagine it.