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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Here at Heartwood the rains come down so we have time to play: Jostle  
With James!, a now and then enterprise certain to solve no great  
questions, nor to be of any practical use to you homesteaders and  
wanna-be homesteaders out there who have a sense of decreasing  
control over factors affecting and effecting your lives and it is  
logical to do something positive so as to insulate oneself as much as  
can be done.

So we apologize for wasting your cyber space.

Perhaps it is because we have easy access to vast information that  
some of us are compelled to speak from a world stage to a house  
audience. Perhaps we have too much time on our hands.  Perhaps it is  
just plain old-fashioned ego. Perhaps it is all of these. Cast your  
vote.
> The oil industry has paid cheerleaders, much as the NAR has (and had)

Do we know of any economic interest groups that do not have paid  
cheerleaders? A Washington Post article says there are approximately  
35,000 paid lobbyists:

"The number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than  
doubled since 2000 to more than 34,750 while the amount that  
lobbyists charge their new clients has increased by as much as 100  
percent. Only a few other businesses have enjoyed greater prosperity  
in an otherwise fitful economy."

Oh, that was two years ago. More now. The DC Whorehouse apparently  
needs lots of urgent messagers.

The price of oil will go up. We will pay whatever it is to get what  
we want. Long before the oil runs out there will be a plethora of  
alternate energies. They exist now but the prices are too high to be  
economically viable. As alternate fuels' prices decline and oil  
prices rise, when the prices meet in the middle, the oil game is over.