The state of the world is never far from my mind, not because I, personally, can do a whole lot about it, but because, well, it sucks eggs a lot of times.
I ran across an excellent comment at The Oil Drum the other day, and asked Joe if I could quote him. If you want to read the whole thing you’ll want to click here. It’s a bit long so I’ll put it below the fold.
As I’ve said before, I’m trying my best not to dwell on the energy crisis; but as I watched gas prices drop all the way to $3.95 this week I’m hearing people say that everything will be OK. I don’t think it will. Think back twenty years, and think about how much has changed. I keep trying to imagine ten or twenty years from now, what will our world be like?
On August 14, 1969 my uncle, Rod Davis, was in the Air Force stationed at Biloxi, Miss. This is his recollection of events:
There was a Hurricane named Camille headed their way.