ppt of Matt Simmons' 9/22/08 ASPO speech--video no longer on YouTube

[zazen]

I got to see this frightening speech from a link posted from [e-mail] where I've lurked for four years, where there's a long thread called "Matt Simmons seems anxious to me." The speech and subsequent interview by Udall is now taken off YouTube due to ASPO copyright issues, but there's a link to Simmons' PDF powerpoint presentation <http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/proceedings/Simmons_Matthew_ASPOUSA2008.pdf>. Basically, he thinks that the "topping off" phenomenon going on right now is going to lead to serious food shortages in two weeks--that the oil (and therefore food) supplies are going to grind to a halt a lot sooner than the credit. He discusses rationing but says the administration hasn't been on top of it (no duh).

I'm not going to go Mormon and buy a year's worth of food, but it makes me take more seriously a personal desire to have a strong "hurricane" preparedness plan. That's about all I can do, combined with my slow movement into what I had hoped would be a slow crash. None of this may come to pass. I just wish the video were still up so we could have a discussion about it at DU.

It's a horrid potential context in which to have what will already be a chaotic election with widespread attempts to disenfranchise the poorest among us. I hope this time he has it wrong.

[lutherj]

1. Looks like the Simmons video along with several others are up

on the ASPO USA website:

http://www.aspo-usa.com/

[KewlKat]

2. Video Online at ASPO

If you follow the link below, to your right you can select Matt Simmons and watch the video.


http://www.aspo-usa.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=84

[zazen]

3. thanks n/t

[Delphinus]

4. Really?!

I'm a lurker there too! :hi: Hard to keep up sometimes.

Edit to add that I think he's way wrong on Global Warming not affecting us for 30 years at the least. Way wrong. I wish there had been a Q&A (maybe there was but it wasn't taped).