Peak Toil - A peek at the future of peak oil.

[Speck Tater]

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45813

It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…need I go on? It only remains “fragmented news” here in the US that, rising fossil fuel prices are impacting people’s ability to feed themselves, and they are protesting, loudly, collectively, sometimes violently.

What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…

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There could be any number of flash points: a currency crisis, bank failures, skyrocketing food and oil prices, massive lay-offs, etc. Or perhaps there will be concurrent whirlpools of misery, sucking in the collective grievances of millions. It will manifest what has always been the single greatest fear of America’s ruling elite: “There’s a f*ck-load of them, and they have guns.”

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Mass evictions will trigger it here

When the first tent city goes up in the shadow of vacant apartments and tract houses where the tent dwellers used to live, THAT is when it will boil over.

A lot of people at DU think that the face of "revolution" will look like Abbie Hoffman. It will actually look more like a somewhat softer Augusto Pinochet -- a democradura with an entire ruling class of jefes.

--p!