[lbo-talk]Peak oil and Why can't you guys learn to quote andattribute properly?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 14 11:14:27 PDT 2005


joanna bujes wrote:


>Well, actually, organic framing does not depend on oil. Of course,
>getting the produce to the city does. But, relative to non-organic
>produce, the price of organic produce would fall.
>
>That would be one good consequence. The price of alternative energy
>would also fall (relatively); that would be another good consequence.

Some of this talk reminds me of Stanley Aronowitz on the end of work - he wanted to see as inevitable what was really his own preference. It's going to take political work to change our oil-based energy system; I doubt Hubbert's peak will be up to the task alone.

Doug



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