Re: The oil and gas situation, according to the expurts

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone ever done a really comprehensive
> quantitative world study of the
> political economy of cars ? I did a quick probe a
> while ago, but has
> somebody actually very comprehensively estimated all
> the different sides of
> the story ?
> The car industry is a very important sector of the
> world economy, it's among
> the most important consumer durables there is. I
> could practically
> reconstruct the whole of modern capitalist culture,
> just through tracing all
> the connections involving one motor car. Sometimes,
> I have thought I should
> make a movie like that, but, probably somebody
> already did it.
>
> J.
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Ehrenburg gradually began to shift his writings into a
more openly pro-Soviet direction. He wrote about
European peasants, blasted Poland's authoritarian rule
and France's racist colonialism. He undertook a series
of stories and novels exposing the greed of noted
wealthy entrepreneurs. The Life of the Automobile
focused on Andre Citroen, Pierpont Morgan, and Henry
Ford.
see: http://www.sovlit.com/bios/ehrenburg.html

For more on "peak oil" see:

<http://www.peakoil.net> and <http://www.dieoff.org>
as well as <http://www.culturechange.org>

Cheers,
Mike B)





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One of Sarpedon's speeches in THE ILIAD--The Trojans storm the rampart
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