Reply #33: I don't doubt that is what some may want you to think, too.

[Beam Me Up]

I'll give you this to chew on: To what extent is WEALTH tied to SCARCITY?

There is a dynamic relationship between wealth and the control of markets. It may very well be that wealth as it has been defined in our time is the control of a market. And note that the reason you want to control a market is to centralize power.

What could be more threatening to the structures of power and wealth in the US than the prospect of the decentralization of the energy market? The BUSH administration represents the corporate interests of oil and energy like no other. The whole picture looks a bit different if we begin to understand that what may be going on around us is not so much an OIL grab as a MARKET grab--an attempt to retain centralized control of a relatively common but all too vital commodity. The whole edifice rests upon everyone around you believing that the commodity you have is both indispensable AND scarce.

To control the market it is often necessary to influence (and hopefully control) your customer's minds. And when the 'customers' are whole nations?

A few of us have begun to suspect that like everything else that has issued from their mouths, Peak Oil, too, is a lie.