tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076013.post404274781611888510..comments2024-02-06T16:22:57.400-08:00Comments on Tales of the Freewayblogger: Telegraph Hill BloggingFreewaybloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290994906698327870noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076013.post-74722709151619682812008-10-14T23:22:00.000-07:002008-10-14T23:22:00.000-07:00In the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War, I co-founded a...In the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War, I co-founded an anti-war group at Laney College in Oakland. At some point I looked around at the campus and realized the place was surrounded by parking lots, was belted by 6 lane boulevards, was backed by a 10 lane freeway that had frontage roads. I proposed that we should block the entrances to the student parking lot: the war was about oil, and it was being fought principallly for the students, on their behalf. 'No' the anti-war movement answered, the war was a racist, imperialist war; oil was not the principle issue. During the victory parade months later, I marched in the counter-demonstration down the main drag in Oakland chanting '6 million people, 4 million cars...shame, shame.' I was the only nutcase doing so. So, here we are, 15 years or so later. Oil production peaked globally on a per capita basis in 1979. The US has a giant aircraft carrier in the Middle East called Iraq. A vice-presidential candidate actually proposed drilling off-shore as a road to energy independence for the US. If global oil production has actually peaked, we'll need about 3000 nuclear power plants in the US within 20 years, 10,000 globally to replace the energy lost -- and that's to say nothing about the growth China and India seem to want. McCain proposed, what? 30 new nuclear plants? I just don't seen that any substantial part of the polity in the US is dealing with a full deck when it comes to the logistics of the future -- or of peace. Want peace? Ok, first we need to tear down and rebuild 80% of the infrastructure in the US...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076013.post-1594247046757763112008-10-12T08:38:00.000-07:002008-10-12T08:38:00.000-07:00yes, let's promote peaceyes, let's promote peaceirtizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473319114584170605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076013.post-71100568441222480812008-10-12T03:14:00.000-07:002008-10-12T03:14:00.000-07:00war. is. hell. i don't know personally, but i susp...war. is. hell. <BR/><BR/>i don't know personally, but i suspect that's an understatement.<BR/><BR/>i love your writing, scarlet - very powerful and devastatingly effective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com