In the Carlsen versus
Karjakin chess demolition derby in November 2016 the player driving a Telsa
hybrid will be the real winner.
Fracking has destroyed the
reliability of the Hilbert curve regarding peak world oil production. Peter Maas
may have got the nature of oil economics and government right in 'Crude World;
The Violent Twilight of Oil’, yet like so many others he also failed to foresee
the crash of global oil prices.
I wrote about that several
months in advance yet the Alaska government failed to respond. The state
legislature still has a multi-billion-dollar budget gap. Plainly fuel cell
power plants, wind, solar and geothermal are better, more clean, less Neolithic
sorts of energy directions to go with the global carbon dioxide content
exceeding 400 parts per million.
Unfortunately for the prospects of human survival on Earth (see James
Lovelock's -'The Final Warning’) fracking will renew most of the world's oil
fields including those of Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia etc. permitting global
second and third world development based on the dirty fuel that will accelerate
greenhouse gassing, global warming, desertification and brain damage to
potential chess players in urban areas of poor nations.
A global corporate
government with Zillary could move toward making a planetary cartel on oil
sales with high government taxation in all member states- ostensibly to fight
global warming. That would make the price for petrol very high though oil is
fairly cheap-about 1960s levels. While that might be good for slowing nominal
pollution from cars, the demand for oil and petrol will return corporate
profits greater than present and take the high ground in the propaganda war for
green government even as human freedom is lost to corporatism-socialism.
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