Negative99

8 Comments

1. Mike Johnson
   Posted September 24, 2009 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

   What a bunch of anti-American garbage(no pun intended).

2. WarAxe
   Posted September 25, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink

   Yeah… this is some crazy BS they’re trying to pull. I wish I’d known it was THIS bad when I first heard about it.

3. השקעות
   Posted September 26, 2009 at 3:54 am | Permalink

   its not all bs, its actually pretty interesting.

4. TwTube
   Posted October 6, 2009 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

   Did you know? This has been shared over 49 times on Twitter.

5. wildabur
   Posted November 10, 2009 at 11:41 am | Permalink

   this is some crazy bs

6. High School Kid
   Posted April 10, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Permalink

   I had to watch this in english and I am a junior. Most of the kids in class agreed with this video like kids with candy. In the end we had to write a essay about the importance of this crap. Very Bias Video

7. Aaron
   Posted May 31, 2010 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

   This reminds me that we as humans spend most of our energy defending our POINT OF VIEW. What I find really funny is that HER argument is very “conservative” when it comes to conserving “resources”… isn’t this a conservative audience here? Where did your sense of conservation go? jk

8. Eclipse Now
   Posted August 14, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

   Your prices argument is true to a certain extent. But what happens if prices rise in commodities that we rely on? I’m a Christian, but I can see that the marketplace is fundamentally flawed regarding peak oil because by the time the prices signal to the marketplace that it is time to shift, it’s too late.

   Oil is not like Coke becoming too expensive so we’ll switch to Pepsi. Oil is so foundational to our economy and everything we do, from mining, construction, agriculture (10 calories of fossil fuel energy to grow 1 calorie of food energy), and transport that it is almost like AIR — we need it to stay alive. We need oil to build our way off oil.

   You can see this in the Australian Federal Senate inquiry into peak oil.

   4.64 The committee notes concerns that markets will not respond in time to provide a smooth transition to a post peak oil world without government action. Given the uncertainty about much of the information on world oil supplies and the geopolitical instability of some key oil bearing regions, it is possible that there may be a risk that markets will under invest in oil and energy technologies, resulting in economic and social hardship when supply of conventional oil falls below demand.

   3.137 The committee cannot take sides with any particular suggested date for peak oil. However in the committee’s view the possibility of a peak of conventional oil production before 2030 should be a matter of concern. Exactly when it occurs (which is very uncertain) is not the important point. In view of the enormous changes that will be needed to move to a less oil dependent future, Australia should be planning for it now.

   http://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/senate-agreed/

   So as a Christian concerned for how the imminent oil crisis will affect the 3rd world, let alone the Great Depression which will smack America around a bit (including my home country of Australia), I can see that IF governments become correctly informed about peak oil, there is a role for governments to intervene.
   
PS: I find the assertion that Christianity supports the right-wing position absurd. That’s an economic perspective, not a theological argument. I have many great Christian friends who are right wing, left wing, ‘green-wing’ or even swing voters depending on the issues and economic circumstances of the times. I know a Pendulum voter who votes left wing when he thinks society needs a bit more welfare intervention, and then right wing when society needs to pay off the debts of welfare intervention.

   Voting seems to be about the least harm to the most people, with lots of vagueness and uncertainty, not about instituting a theocracy on earth. I’m into 2 kingdoms theology and don’t see a place for dogmatic assertions that ‘right is ALWAYS RIGHT!’ ‘Right-wing’ may be right sometimes, but can also stuff up the world. George W was probably one of the worst American Presidents the world has ever had to bear. If only we’d listened to Carter’s malaise speech back in the 70’s we might not be as oil addicted and oil vulnerable as we are today.