Re: BIKES OR WWIII!

ComandanteBanana

Originally Posted by wahoonc
"Actually in some ways what he is posting makes some sense...When Cuba
was hit with the loss of oil when the Soviet Union collapsed, they
imported a large number of bicycles from China to keep people moving,
they became healthier due to increased exercise and still had a form
of transport, they WERE headed down the same road as many other
countries with the automobile. In Vietnam the US was constantly having
problems stopping the supply line from the north, millions of pounds
of amunition and supplies was being hauled down the Ho Chi Minh
trail...by bicycle! And the US with all of it sophisticated equipment
and weaponry was almost powerless to stop it."

Aaron

I was watching a fictional documentary about the day oil runs out.
Well, America doesn't have an oil policy! Zero, zilch, nada...

America would have to invade Venezuela, making China do some move in
the Middle East, so they can keep going in their voracious journey
toward destruction.

It would be so easy to practice some prevention, starting with the
magic word: save! Our president has to tell Americans to save gas,
electricity, bottles, etc.

But the way we work reminds me of these words written 100 years ago...

"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money
is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole
criterion of power." -Upton Sinclair, book 'The Jungle'