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Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing

"Allowing markets to work will be the best approach going forward in optimally allocating energy resources to those uses which are of greatest value to society at large. Beware politicians claiming to be able to do this more efficiently!"

That's funny. Is that how our highway system was built, thereby ensuring dependence on oil-based transportation? How about the GI Bill and homeowner incentives after WWII? How about all those manufacturing jobs pushed into existence by the war? How about our arrangements with oil supplying nations, and the wars we fight over it (and pay for)? There never was a truly free market involved in creating our economy. There is no such thing as a free market now. Trying to solve problems by deregulating one tiny part of the global economy ignores the reality that nothing exists in a vacuum.