[A-List] Fwd: Running out of whale oil

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

Yes, something is very different.  This plea is cooler than cool.  Suzanne

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Date: Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Subject: Running out of whale oil
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 *People like to compare our current situation with those of the past -
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nuclear war in the 1960s/'80s, and it worked out." Or, "Once everyone
burned whale oil; then when that ran out we found a different fuel." Or,
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feed ourselves, and the likelihood of another financial collapse has only
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