Hi Folks.

I have been very busy posting at sites like running on empty3 and running on empty . ca and I part of a local group called CKOAP which is part of a larger organization postcarbon.org. I highly recommend visiting the sites and joining up if you have some wisdom to share or questions to ask. There are people from all over that are freely sharing what they know and if the do not know it, they have good suggestions on where to look. No one person can have all skills and know everything. We need to be part of a larger whole in order to survive.My predictions are an Economic crash will happen as a result of A) Avian Flu or some other Pandemic and/or B) E.W.E.'s (Extreme Weather Events) battering down North America too fast, too often for it to recover quickly and/or C)the war for oil will get too expensive and someone is going to call the States in to cash in their chips. On top of this you have peak oil with the highest prices for oil ever driving everything up. All it takes is one push from the wrong direction and WHOOSH! the whole house comes down like a pack of cards.

Others are calling for a more moderate view of the situation. The debates are civil, no one is flaming me because of my opinions on the situation. There is disagreement, as there should be when diverse minds get together to try and find a solution to the chaos caused by Peak Oil. Some hope that it will happen gradually. We all seem to agree that a collapse of society will happen, it is just a matter of when, how and for how long. There are good suggestion there and good people. Stop reading this and go to those sites!

Michael J. Kaer