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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> For years I've been enjoying what I have while I have it. There is no other
> way to live with reasonable happiness when your life partner has terminal
> heart disease.

Sounds to me as if you have taken control of your feelings. Good for you!

>  Still, I see no joy in a cataclysmic end.

Don't worry about such a thing. The rich will always keep the oil, or its 
replacement, going to power their lives. That is not to say that the price 
of using energy will not rise. American gas prices have been kept low for 
decades. That's why American car makers have lost so much to those other 
countries where gas was priced higher and cars were designed more 
intelligently.

As oil becomes depleted, other energy sources will be pushed. Nuclear, 
solar, wind, tidal energy has tremendous potential. Until the sun goes out, 
we will always have energy. It's all a matter of market conditions.