noticed that the roads were remarkably quiet. It got me thinking...
What would happen if we simply couldn't afford to buy diesel any more?
I don't just mean one or two of us struggling but everyone. At the
moment oil is at the lowest price it's been for ages-don't even get me
started on how they can simply lower the price the way they have-but
at the end of the day it's a non-renewable product so over time it
should gradually become more expensive. So what happens when there
isn't enough oil to meet everyones needs?! Assuming alternative fuels
aren't found/successful, do only the rich drive? Or do the suppliers
start looking out for themselves? What about food? Will we always have
enough food for everyone if the global population continues to grow?
What happens when the answer is no? What if there isn't enough land to
live on? Whilst we may be far away from that (or any of the above)
happening there could obviously be a time when it does. And would it
be an instant problem? Or would the first signs be things like people
not having enough money to buy houses, pay fuel bills, buy food etc. I
think they would-but this isn't the doomsday moment. The fact that oil
and food prices can come down so quickly simply shows that we've been
severely overcharged for things over the last few years, and hopefully
with all the attention and scrutiny companies are under at the moment
we will stop getting raped of our money. But cutting prices and
interest rates is only a short term solution! Eventually food, fuel
and shelter will be in far more demand... and prices will naturally
have to go up. The prices wont have been artificially inflated this
time... they will one day represent the high value of our necessities.
So what happens when most of us can't afford the basics of living?
Well one of my good friends gave me an adapted quote from the latest
Batman movie that's sticking in my mind. It went something like
"Everyone is friendly and kind to each other when it suits them... But
when the chips are down they'll kill their neighbours". We all live
behind this falseness... We live on a world where people don't have to
worry about the next man stealing their bread, their home, their
diesel even... But what if we can't afford essentials. Quite simply..
Money becomes worthless and it's every man for himself. We keep on
ignoring it-if you live in the city it's so easy to get caught up in
your own little world and forget what's going on outside. One day a
country is going to try taking another ones riches, there'll probably
be global condemnation and they'll be brought into line. Sound
familiar? Anyway. It will begin to happen more often. Rather than once
every 40 years maybe once every 10. Once every five. And then one day
one of the major powers will be struggling... And they might have to
do something drastic. If you can't live, but I can, what are you going
to do?! I'm kind of drifting away from the point but basically we all
happily get poorer and poorer while they're building 7 star hotels in
Dubai. What happens when we're starving?
Anyway thankfully the red light turned green by Tesco and I caught up
with a lot more traffic down by Trainer BMW so I got on with my day...
But watching Man City with their £550bn backers really p's me off.
That isn't rich... That's living outside the boundaries of money. Why?
Because that country has something we all need. And it turns out they
can just lower the price when they've raped us to the point of
recession. How much is oil really worth at the moment? And how patient
will the world be when we can't afford it?!
Yes I am in a bit of a bad mood today haha. I know... We can solve it
all by getting Chuck Norris. Or David Hasselhoff. Don't hassle The
Hoff. Oh and Robinho scored an aaabsolute craaacker tonight-said in my
best Swansea accent. Nice one son.
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