The Rock River Times

Ook de kleine gemeenschappen in de Verenigde Staten worden nu geconfronteerd met de grote mensenwereld. The Rock River Times is de krant van de plaats Rockford in de noordelijke staat Illinois. De krant bericht: 'This is the winter of our discontent and also of our discomfort. Our wake up call has arrived. U.S. News, in a recent article analyzing the energy outlook, predicts the next several months will test our survival skills to the maximum. Peak Oil and Gas are beginning to weigh upon us. Experts in the energy field have been saying for months that natural gas will be our biggest problem this winter, and we are seeing its cost heading for the moon as supplies tighten up. Some look at the prices at the gasoline pump and believe it all is a matter of big oil companies gouging the consumer, but that analysis is misleading. Mike Ruppert, publisher of From the Wilderness publications, says it this way: “Peak Oil cannot be a conspiracy of big business to get rich when big businesses are about to be shut down, either because of a lack of energy or a frozen work force. It cannot be a conspiracy of big business when GM and Ford teeter on the edge of bankruptcy; when 800,000 jobs are slated for the ax this winter; when Delta and Northwest are in bankruptcy; when the Federal Reserve has blithely announced it is going to conceal how much money it is printing into the M3 money supply. “It cannot be a conspiracy to impose a one-world order when the international scene is starting to look like a saloon fight in a ‘B’ Western. It cannot be anything other than what it is: the beginning of the collapse of modern industrialized civilization.” As the first snowfall of the season smacked the Northeast last week, it became even more apparent that hurricanes Katrina and Rita did a lot more to our energy supply and distribution system than most had thought; the ripples are still spreading through our economy.' Zie: http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=printstory&id=11948&cat=4 Ondertussen meldt de Washington Post: 'The Senate decision yesterday not to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge marks the latest failure of lawmakers to form a consensus on a strategy to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.Congress has been unable to agree to the two most significant steps analysts cite for addressing the issue: allowing more domestic drilling and increasing automobile mileage requirements.'
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