We're doomed

Just finished reading James Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" which outlines our likely future once we go past peak oil and are starved of energy. Even if all the countries in the world magically got serious and attacked oil usage with a vengeance it's probably too late. Meanwhile our Senate squabbles over meaningless things and can't get anything done. The rules in the Senate are so dysfunctional with the filibuster and the unbelievable system where ONE senator can block a bill from a vote by simply saying "I want to put a hold on it", even though this absurd rule is nowhere in Senate rules or the constitution. Business Week reports that over 300 bills are stalled because of this.

Meanwhile Obama, who I supported, is letting Harry Reid put immigration reform ahead of the energy bill ,and leaving it up to congress to muddle along. Thomas Friedman's editorial today sums it up real well.

The only bright spot is that Kunstler's book was written in 2005 and here we are five years later and the world seems to be humming along. Maybe, hopefully, he is wrong. To boost my mood a bit I ordered Steven Goprelick's book "Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths". He sides with the optimists so I am hoping he can give me some hope for my grand kids.