Re: [Marxism] Re: Peak oil and politics

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >>    FWIW, where I live in rural, far northern New England the price of a
 >> cord of wood hasn't increased in any significant amount.  I'd guess it
 >> would be different in Connecticut or Massachusetts, but [...]
 > LYNDEBOROUGH, N.H. -- There are plenty of ways to tell that the market
 > for firewood has taken off here. Wood-burning stoves are selling out in
 > stores, the price of split wood has jumped past $200 a cord and would-be
 > woodsmen are filling up classes on lumberjack skills..........

   Geography's the key.  Lydeborough is what? -- 20 or 30 miles from the
Massachusetts border?  That's suburbia.

   New Hampshire is divided into two economies: the south, center and coastal
areas are heavily influenced by their proximity to Boston, and have what I'll
call a sane or modern economy.

   But once you get above Franconia notch, there is a totally different
economy.  In the northern part of NH minimum wage and near-minimum wage jobs
are common, the region is filled with dying towns and cities (e.g. Berlin),
and unemployment -- whether open or hidden by support of families or
part-time/self employment -- is rampant.  Believe me, no one in the northern
part of NH is paying $200 or more for a cord of wood.

 In solidarity.

--
"A contribution by Microsoft Corporation to South Carolina's Republican Party
during the 1998 campaign preceded a decision by the state's GOP attorney
general to withdraw from an antitrust suit against the computer software
giant."  Source: API, 24 December 1998.

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