Is Gas Rationing in our Future?

[Dover]

A friend just emailed this article to me, so if it's a dupe or if Ruppert isn't your cup of tea, please ignore:

RATIONING
By
Michael C. Ruppert


July 18, 2005 1000 PST (FTW) -- In previous stories, reprinted from the
Financial Times, (April 16, 2005, IEA Calls For Emergency Plan), and Al
Jazeera, (March 24, 2005, IEA Wants Brakes on Fuel Consumption) we commented
on how the International Energy Agency had apparently dusted off plans for
rationing to be imposed (with the full authority of government and the UN)
in nations which had signed the original UN treaty in 1974 or joined later.

The IEA plan is here. As of today, IEA Member countries include: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. (Source: http://www.iea.org)

Now we see the Falls Church News-Press (a very influential local newspaper
from an affluent Washington, DC suburb) do some very hard-edged reporting on
Peak Oil issues. This is the second time FTW has reprinted a News-Press
story in a month. This is a local paper for the spot where the senior policy
makers, intelligence officials and many high-ranking military personnel live
and raise their families. They want a local paper that prepares them and
that's what they've got. They get "authentic journalism" of sorts.

Contrary to this story's spin however, this plan has more loopholes for
black market profiteering, arbitrage and manipulation than a colander has
for draining spaghetti. The profit potential here is far greater than it
would be with, for example, tax credits and subsidies for renewables. Once
again, we're back to the infamous quotation: "It may not be profitable to
slow decline." Or, as Catherine Austin Fitts says, "They make money on the
way up and they make money on the way down."

On the other hand, mandatory and enforced rationing might be the only way to
penetrate a very thick American skull. We do reveal a bovine nature on
occasion.

So I think it's time we all put rationing (serious rationing) on our
schedule of upcoming events.

When? (Sigh). It could be as soon as this winter. I would say, of a
certainty, no later than January or February 2007...cont'd


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[jody]

1. No, just very high prices, n/t

[okieinpain]

6. yep, I think they will keep edging it up a little at a time. you know

1.90, then 1.92, down to 1.91. then you wake up and it's 2.10, then it goes down slowly to 2.05. then the next thing you know it's 2.35. and they just keep doing this until the economy starts to slow down, then they will drop it a few pennies.

they (corporations) are not stupid, just the american public.

[cornermouse]

2. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

You didn't watch Journal Editorial Report last night did you? Well...

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/journaleditorialreport/072205/transcript_briefing.html

STEVE MOORE: Yeah, but as Kim said, it's not going to come from these idiotic renewable energy sources. It's going to come down because what's happening with $60 a barrel oil is that everybody in the energy business is going out and finding new sources of oil just as in the late '70s. I think there's a good indication that by 2006 you're going to see oil prices start to come down because of new sources.

PAUL GIGOT: Because there will be a lot of alternative sources for oil? New sources for oil.

STEVE MOORE: Yeah. And by the way we didn't mention the one positive feature, I guess it's not in the energy bill, but an energy policy which is drilling in Alaska. Hopefully we'll do more offshore drilling. There is an incalculable amount of oil that can come from the sea and from Alaska.

PAUL GIGOT: Yeah and $60 oil is going to help that Alaska drilling provision pass. Alright, thanks all very much.
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A bunch of brainless ninnies.

[kestrel91316]

3. No, silly, because ...................

"the American way of life is not negotiable". We will just have to get used to $10 a gallon gas. Those that can afford it will drive their Hummers and keep wasting and never even notice the price. Those that can't will just have to get used to doing without.

Can't have rationing, that's COMMUNIST!!!!!!!!

[Patty Diana]

4. Sure, I predict rationing on everything after the world imposes

sanctions on The United States of Americans, for assorted crimes and threats to the world at large!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God how I dispise these fuckers.

[sam sarrha]

5. that is why Walmarts are everywhere, theyll be the distribution centers

for commodities you will go in with your ration book/magnetic card/or implant and go in one dore and out the other front door.... Big Lines

they will get a No Bid contract because they already have a distribution system set up,,,

[havocmom]

7. Food too, eventually. But it will be rationing by $$.

Takes diesel to produce food and get it to a market near you.

Learn to grow things, even if just in pots in a window. Learn to can. Skills like that will make life a little, um, less precarious.

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Yes, eventually

as oil is a finite resource.

[ovidsen]

9. Remember odd day/even day rationing?

It happened in the 70s... it's where rationing in the US could start today. Or tomorrow. Sure it's subject to abuse, and has ways to cheat that you could drive an SUV through. But judging by history, it would cut fuel consumption.