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it seems i forgot to add the words "free market", damnKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Ha! I knew it you hippy socialist trash!kr@cker wrote:
edit: I'm all for a nation seeking to better it's economy on the world stage, it honestly wouldn't make any difference to me if china eventually outranked the US, aside from the possible business opportunities there, so long as the nation acheives it by bettering it's own economy as opposed to doing so by hamstringing it's neighbors, a cooperative world trade economy is to the benefit of everyone
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In the sense of rationing....possibly....but I doubt its actually 100 years. Regardless of the size of it, when the time comes that we are cut off from oil, and we have to go into that, rationing will be placed.JG1567JG wrote:
Did you know that we have over a hundred year oil supply stored in this country. When ever you hear about the government tapping the oil reserves to help bring down prices, it is this 100+ year supply they are talking about. If the oil in the ground ever runs out there will still be over a 100 year supply in the United States that will be ready on tap.
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Actually, I don't see where the socialist comment was even coming from. The only way to obtain cooperative world trade is through unrestricted trade. The greatest opponent of which seems to be the US currently.kr@cker wrote:
it seems i forgot to add the words "free market", damnKEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Ha! I knew it you hippy socialist trash!kr@cker wrote:
edit: I'm all for a nation seeking to better it's economy on the world stage, it honestly wouldn't make any difference to me if china eventually outranked the US, aside from the possible business opportunities there, so long as the nation acheives it by bettering it's own economy as opposed to doing so by hamstringing it's neighbors, a cooperative world trade economy is to the benefit of everyone
even then I never said anything about a world socialist market, just a trade situation that benefits both parties as oppposed to trying to damaging another, the equivalent of winning first place by running real fast as opposed to throwing badgers at your faster opponents
More research on fusion is a good idea. Fusion reactions have been sucessfully contained but there is little hope of harnessing any useable power from a fusion reaction - which uses an immense amount of power to start in the first place.Janysc wrote:
Hell, fusion reactors anyone? Clean safe energy without the nasty side-effects like radiation and toxic waste. Now, if we can figure out a way to heat up hydrogen into extreme temperatures and not burn off/melt everything around it...
That's why theoretical physics are fun. You come up with crazy ideas and pass them on to engineers and practical physicists to figure out.
But seriously. Fusion power is the future. Though "tree-hugging hippies" will probably object to the word "fusion"'s resemblence to "fission", the forementioned evil twin of fusion.
Sigh...
The good thing is that they are as greedy as the US gov't - maybe more - like Gordon Gecco once said "greed is good"....as long as they are making money, I am not worried about them. It is when/if their economy collapses that we might have problems. Seems like they ARE growing too fast and it is almost impossible for them to slow it down - they have no learned how to reign in their growth yet......nothing like 3 billion pissed off Chinese people with no jobs.....Bertster7 wrote:
China are going to overtake the US as a world power, it is inevitable. I think that is a scary prospect. Much as I dislike the current US administration the Chinese government scares me - a lot.
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