Bringing Gas Prices Down
Posted by pimpcat on June 8, 2008
The way I figure it, the United States and China are both large bulls in the same pen. One or the other is going to end up dead, while the other rules the pen. The thing is that China is the young bull; it’s still growing and on its way up. The US, on the other hand, is the aging bull, still at its prime, but beginning to fade. Lately, China and the US have come into competition for the vast majority of the world’s natural resources. Crude oil, precious, as well as non-precious metals, food, etc are being sent at unsustainable rates to both countries. China, with its gargantuan population, and the US, with its gargantuan appetite for material goods.
The tragic part is that some insane number of people are going to have to die. It’s the only way that the economies and lifestyles of these two countries will be brought back into equilibrium. The way I figure it, this can happen in only one or two of three ways.
1) China’s overall population becomes unsustainable, there is famine and pestilence everywhere and millions of the Chinese die.
2) China’s rapidly increasing male population overwhelms the female population there is a drastic decrease in the overall population of China within a period of 30-40 years.
3) One country or another decides that they’ve had enough of sharing the world’s natural resources with their economic counterparts and decides to wage all-out war.
I don’t think that anyone wants to see the third scenario play out. This would undoubtedly lead to a world-wide nuclear war with the great majority of the world’s population dead.
It’s a sad story, but something has got to give, and it’s not going to be pretty.
