Living Will Soon Become Unaffordable

The foundation of everything that exists is made up of energy. Even a rock contains a bit of it. Living things are made up of even more energy. Oil is concentrated energy. In our every day life we use oil to energize the machinery needed to produce the products that keep us alive. The food we eat comes from a soil that is fertilized by oil based chemicals. Insecticides made from oil are used to keep pests away. Harvesters and other farm machinery will come to a standstill without oil and oil guzzling trucks are needed to bring the food to the markets. Oil guzzling machinery is used to manufacture every product we use. Humans are the biggest oil guzzlers. A person with a weekly income of six hundred dollars subtly uses 250 barrels of oil each year. There are over six billion people on our planet and every one of them is using oil. Unfortunately there is a limited amount of oil available. The oil pumps are working around the clock to meet growing demands and still these demands are not being met. China and India have three billion people hungry for the best products of the Western world. Their dream of a better life is now quickly being realized. They are the new oil guzzlers and are the reason why oil has suddenly become so scarce and expensive.

The prices of food will keep increasing and those that find it unaffordable will starve. Poor people will beg their governments for food, but there will not be enough available. Many will die of hunger. This tragedy will all happen in the next few years when oil prices reach three hundred dollars a barrel. Most people in the private sector will be able to survive without much inconvenience. Some will be unaffected by higher prices. The private sector of the economy will expand and many new jobs will be created. Governments will become dysfunctional because they will not be able to support their employees. High prices will make it impossible to survive without a good job.

The world's oil shortage will be over when the penniless are no longer with us. There will be enough oil available for those fortunate people that can afford its higher costs. It will be a sad ending for the poor, but it will be impossible for them to survive without a government that gives out food stamps. The oil shortage makes me understand a bitter reality. I wish there was a Garden of Eden where abundance was plenty. Let's all pray that a new source of energy is discovered quickly.
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