Portents

As I was roaming around online looking to see how various other people may have organized the accoutrement of their own blogs, James Wolcott pointed me toward this rather dreary assessment by James Howard Kunstler of life in these United States after the oil runs out in a few years. Sure, it's alarmist and Kunstler's timetable may be overly pessimistic (elsewhere--scroll down to the March 27 entry--he suggests Bush may be forced from office as the energy crisis develops), but I think his basic premise is valid and deserves discussion. The piece, which appeared in Rolling Stone, is adapted from Kunstler's upcoming book, The Long Emergency.