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SYRIA SCARE

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We minions, proud and few, were helping out a brother and mentioned some media whores idea of an article about how the Oz homeland had far less gasoline reserves than normal and middle east unrest, supposedly caused by the Great Syrian Conflict, would see destitute Australians hollow eyed and rib showing without petrol and suffering inhumanely.  The Oz minion responded, something about putting the gas can stockpile on his to do list.  There were so many problems with this whole incident I simply had to write an article on it.

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In no particular order, the Syrian war is bullspit.  The height of a bubble is obvious when the activity in question is given life and death importance.  Should minions even be allowed to panic buy?  Why are we even reading mainstream media?  Isn’t just about every other country on earth much better off with public transportation than the US, and shouldn’t they be less worried because of that?  By focusing on other countries problems, are we hiding our own?  I’ll stop there, to minimize my responses to your attention span.  Let’s follow up on each point, shall we?

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A lot of people panicked and at least had a modicum of reason, when nuclear armed North Korea started saber rattling.  As the last declared bully on the block we puffed ourselves up and got uppity and tried to write a check our asses couldn’t cover ( if I was a foreign power, I wouldn’t worry too much about the US navy attacking me.  The ships would crash into each other or commercial shipping before they ever arrived ), but then it all blew over as the media rushed to cover the release of super sexy PC Star Wars or something similar, or China told the NORK’s to shut the hell up and stop disrupting trade.

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But panicking over Syria?  Are we even half way serious?  That is beyond embarrassing.  Syria might technically be part of the middle east, but it could turn into Putin’s glassed over roller hokey rink and it wouldn’t make two craps of a difference to the world energy supply situation.  If you get this worked up when a natural gas pipeline gets taken off line, I hate to see your response when something serious happens.

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I’m going to say one more thing about middle east oil and then I’ll shut up.  All these little Podunk has-been oil suppliers, on par with what Libya used to pump prior to its color revolution, don’t mean spit.  They have been pumping for eighty years or more, and a conventional oil field is pretty much depleted ( for all intents and purposes, commercially and geopolitically ) after half that time.  They are SUB marginal suppliers.  Our capacity to ascertain true risk and panic accordingly needs a lot of work.

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Next, the Idea Peak.  Do you know how to tell when an idea, meme, industry, government or organization has reached its peak of power?  Besides from the hubris and reality distortion, a good way is to see how important it is deemed.  When everybody thinks that the US alone as the world policeman allows trade to flow, you know the effectiveness of the US in that position has in fact dropped exponentially.  When all the media was agog over every daycare provider in the nation molesting its charges, the trend had already peaked and declined.  When every financial move by a company is reported and bloviated on, the company is already a zombie and nobody has noticed yet.  When a TV show is the only thing anyone talks about, it is going to nosedive shortly.

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This obsession everyone has over automobiles is an Idea Peak.  We focus on hydrogen cars, then electric cars, then ethanol cars,  treat gasoline as liquid gold, obsess over the countries that pump it, such as the puny amount from Syria, or make believe what happens there will effect every other oil producing nation, as if each of them isn’t at a critical point economically or demographically and could still show solidarity.  Once we reached the peak of concern and obsession with gasoline supply back in the 70’s, the supply started flowing again.  Today, our concern and obsession with auto’s in general ( the companies that build them, their fuel, the cost and financing, the roads that hold them, etc. ) might just be a sign that our entire auto-centric civilization is about to lose that importance we focus on.  Not a guarantee, obviously, but an observation.

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Should minions be allowed to panic buy?  By that I mean, why are any of my readers in a position of such vulnerability?  When preparedness is all broken down into such frugal terms, there are very few people indeed who cannot afford to prep.  You shouldn’t place yourself in a position of panic buying, only opportunistic stockpiling on the sale.  Okay, let’s say you live in Hawaii and you get a text telling you there are inbound NORK missiles.  Did you just panic?  If you don’t have a fallout shelter in your hardened home ( a lot of places in Hawaii have huge sections of screened walls to catch the breeze and act as natural air conditioners.  These are as you might surmise far from secure against native invaders ), you did something wrong.  Why didn’t you already move?

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I mean, why are you even living in Hawaii?  If you are rich, fine.  Otherwise, WOW!, what a craphole.  You pay more for everything as it must be shipped in, a terrible survival strategy unless you are going to eat pineapple exclusively and that is traditionally a plantation crop so good luck not being indentured, not to mention it is an island offering no escape unless you own a sailboat.  But far worse, the dive is a worse Socialist fecal stain on par with Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands, than even my native California.  And that was thirty years ago!  I’d hate to see taxes, regulation and gun control there now. 

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If you are in a position where you are panicking about gasoline, at heart that means fundamentally you have adopted the incorrect lifestyle.  Okay, I get it, you are only worried about commuting and if the gas supply is cut your job is going to disappear anyway because no fuel means businesses go out of business.  That is all fine and dandy, I imagine ( as long as commuting into work doesn’t make you vulnerable to local hoodlums ).  But are you sure that commuting is your only vulnerability?  As long as you use this panic to truthfully evaluate your dependence on gasoline, your panic can be allowed.  It can be a wake-up call on your other supply disruption issues.  We’re out of time today, ladies-I’ll continue tomorrow.

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