how far is too far?

HOW FAR IS TOO FAR?

We just talked about the Colorado valley off grid folks and their run in with Johnny Law, Zoning Police Division. I wanted to talk a bit more about moving TOO far off the grid. I want you to think of one thing. Carbon fuel cost increases. Note I did NOT say “Peak Oil”. I'm not talking about running out ( although we are-it is just disguised by fracking gasoline overabundance and economic slowdown decreasing factory demand. But, fine! I won't go on and on about the start of our last decade with oil. Jeez! ).

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I'm talking about the cost of fuel soaring. As I keep trying to remind you, the PetroDollar is dying. It isn't dying in ten or twenty years, but rather is HAS BEEN dying starting several years ago. Once that bad boy goes, no one will want our currency for commodities. Our economy will go off the rails ( way before the rest of the world ). Two out of three of the biggest oil producers no longer adhere strictly to the dollars for oil dictate. The third one is losing money producing enough unwanted gasoline to pretend to be a top producer and is already going into debt to buy foreign oil.

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Let me remind you folks that the reason we did so well economically for fifty years ( meaning, we didn't completely crash ) was because we traded Treasury bonds ( debt ) for oil. In exchange for THE only commodity that matters ( it even grows our food, and can deliver hookers and blow ), fuzzy foreigners took our worthless paper. We talked Saudi Arabia into this arrangement, back when they controlled OPEC and when they had gazillions of barrels of oil. The reason others did it was because the bonds were just a trading chit.

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Treasury bonds, and by extension the US Dollar, was As Good As Oil. It was better than gold, there being way more of it. But 2005 was the year it all started to unravel. Not quickly. Unlike today's politicians who are as clueless as the Sky Screamers who elect them, the 90's Boys Behind The Curtain actually did a bang up job moving events in our favor. The entire 90's economic expansion was because of Siberian Oil ( just as Alaska and the North Sea saved the '80's ), a pretty prize we won after we Color Revolution'ed Russia.

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And making a pretext of our False Flag 9/11 to invade and occupy the middle east allowed us to control the oil. We invaded Iraq because of their toying with the idea of Euro's For Oil. Bad Saddam! No biscuit for you. Play nice with the Dollar ( because dollars for oil is Our Debt For Your Oil ). Peak Oil was well known to the neocons, and while they are clueless and idiots today, that is only because they took a failing strategy and doubled down on it. But it worked wonderfully back then.

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But after 2005 we were fighting an uphill battle and slowly losing ground. Libya was the last time ( 2011 ) we successfully crushed any foreign leader who tried to leave King Dollar. Now, it is probably easier to list those left on the dollar standard than all those who dropped it ( whether in full or partially, it makes little difference ). It is already Game Over. The Treasury Bonds already issued are the ones trading hands with foreigners. No one has bought any new ones for years ( for all intents and purposes ). We hold auctions and pretend it isn't ourselves buying the debt.

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We can't go back to being the worlds primary gold holder ( that ship sailed way before Nixon closed the gold window ). We can't go back to being the globes primary oil producer ( we pretend by mixing Fracking gasoline with Canadian tar sand sludge, but nobody that matters is fooled ). We aren't the globes breadbasket anymore ( that is Russia ). And the dollar certainly is NOT the worlds reserve currency anymore. We can't even force Venezuela to use the Dollar for oil sales. All we can do is hack their electric grid on occasion, in childish displeasure.

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I keep repeating the above because it is important to realize our economy is endangered not because the stock market is overvalued, but because we can no longer get the world to pay our debt, AND when enough nations dump the dollar we will have a hard time importing anything ( and in case you missed the news flash, we import a LOT, including one third our oil ). The oil is running out, quick enough. But before that, we have to worry about our economy taking a Big Squishy.

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This should be a Three Way screw job. At about the time our financial sector crashes ( from the derivatives market, once again ), taking the fracking industry with it ( we roll over and issue new debt to keep the money losing frackers pumping-how are we going to do that as the banks are failing? When fracking is nationalized you can bet production crashes ), foreigners will all dog pile on to the Chinese/Russian trading currency, AND imports dry up. Unemployment goes through the roof ( real unemployment went from 10% in the bad areas to 25% in the formally good areas, after 2008 ).

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Remember, never forget, and write it on your forehead, the 2008 crash was a few US banks as the bad dominoes. 2019 is going to be the worlds institutions all failing at once, economically. Given the trends ALREADY in place, not some fanciful projections you just hope never unfold, are you comfortable placing your trust in your job and our ability to provide enough fuel for your commute? And if so, why? If you would like to guess how competent our government will be running the fracking fields, look how well Afghanistan is working out for them. Or, the ObamaCare web site. The future of our government is the same as a Diversity Hire designed pedestrian bridge in Florida.

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You also need to be very aware that competence is no longer about the correct people. In a failing system, the “right” people are never used, mainly because people are also a resource and the system started failing because resources were running out. There is no “fixing” the system since it was already broken. Your qualified engineer isn't hired because he costs too much, and he costs too much because the surplus is already accounted for ( it ain't payroll ) by the rulers and for partially fixing all the problems the rulers caused by their wealth extraction.

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And the wealth extraction is so hurtful because the surplus is gone, and the seed corn is being used. All those bastards who got rich off of the oil surplus, do you really think they will voluntarily give up their wealth and power just because we are running out of that surplus? Or, do you perhaps think they will instead just squeeze the blood out of the stone a little harder? That is why failing systems aren't saved. Our system is failing, and won't be saved. American Exceptionalism is a foolish delusion. Hubris, meet Short Bus Sammy.

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We could be ten years from running out of oil ( and again, let me remind you that fracking is sucking the dregs out left over from conventional pumping, it is NOT a new source of oil ), but in a year or two, or hell, I don't know, even LESS, we will have problems getting that oil or paying for it. I know you don't want to hear me. I wonder if you are even listening. But, regardless, I fearlessly forge ahead further, tomorrow.

( .Y. )

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