Posted 21:29 by Grote 0 comments

OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!"

Well, maybe not all of us but the odds are not in you're favor. At least according to this panicky website that predicts that we'll have an oil peak sometime in the next 0 to 10 years and that somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.5 billion people will die. However being a good Republican, I don't believe this; therefore I offer my "Top Ten things that will happen before we have an 'Oil Crash' (in no particular order)":

10. Asteroid Collides with Earth

9. Doomsday device created and used by an evil genius (quite possibly my god-daughter Adrienne)

8. Alien Invasion and enslavement

7. Nuclear War

6. Peace between Israel and the Middle East

5. I get elected President of the United States as founding member of the new Bull Moose Party.

4. George Lucas writes a good Star Wars Script.

3. Fox re-options Firefly

2. Weapons of Mass Destruction are found in Iraq.

1. France gets involved in a war and doesn't surrender.

In all honesty, the real reason I believe this "nightmare" scenario won't happen, is because we humans are very resourceful (and no I don't mean drilling in the Artic Refuge). There are things like Liquid Natural Gas and Gas to Liquids technology. Not to mention the old phrase, "Necessity is the mother of invention." If we start to run out of oil, hundreds of new ideas for alternative fuels will pop up, one has to work. The reason we don't have these alternative fuels yet is we humans also like to procrastinate and fear change.