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anti-bling
Well, the reason gas is so high is partially what you said. China and India are buying up a shitload. The fact is, oil production peaked a couple of years ago, and the oil-producing countries either can't, or won't pump enough to keep prices down. If we already have peaked oil production, then the curve down is not gonna be nice and slow like the rise was, its gonna be a shit-slide cause india and China will be diping in bigger and bigger spoons into it to keep their economies going.
It just makes sense to get off the sauce.
As for indoor parks, i live in Japan and they have a shitload of them. And i talk to Japanese kids about them too, whenever it comes up. I am talking about Las Vegas because that is what the thread id abut. If it was about Dubai. i would say the same thing.
While the production has peaked, we are still finding more and more oil fields all over the world, but the companys are doing the same thing diamond companys are doing, which is stock piling and slowly releasing the product so it seems more rare and therefore more expensive when in reality they still have a lot more to go around, this whole thing about the gulf of mexico when katrina hit opened my eyes fully becuase only about 5% of fuel in the states comes from the gulf and only one of the platforms was actually damaged, yet the prices went up a huge amount when that all happend. the reality of it is the companys are driving up the price, and then countrys like india and china are just exploding with consumerism and just dont know how to stop, North America as a whole has done what we should with the market in its current state, people are down sizing there usage of gas, oil and people are getting more involved with taking the bus and riding bikes, its awesome to see people finally doing what they should be doing, but what we do here wont even be worth anything aslong as china and india are allowed to go wild, the UN honestly needs to step in and say something, but the fact is they wont because they are a bunch of popular-only battle hounds who dont really seem to understand the route of the problem.
as far as my post about dubai i said that because some people dont know it isnt just a american idea, i was talking to someone about this not so long ago and they had no clue that these types of things existed anywhere, i knew you knew about them because we have talked about this in the past i believe!
but yah i am totally with you, the world needs less artifical thrills and more true expirences.
and sorry for another long post, this is just something im very interested in.
[Edited by christofski on 11/06/2008 at 8:26 PM]
