Kmarion wrote:
Yes I'm sure China knows that, and when they do sell it will be 10x's worse for us.
Next 10 years will be interesting. Not the end of the world, but.. interesting.
I think China is the one taking the "10x worse" in the ass right now, not us.
I think China built too much, too fast, and on credit. Their infrastructure is too fragile, and they built with so little regard for sustainability.
They were
trying to pull the same routine Japan used, but 25 years late.
(build cheap junk en masse, sell cheap crap to the West to make some money.. then start moving into the quality markets once you have the manufacturing experience to do so).
China is stuck at "build cheap junk", and the world economy is doing a faceplant before China & Russia can move into the quality manufacturing positions that Japan & Germany own.
[edit: and Japan was just copying the rebuilding paradigm that Germany used to get itself out of the rubble of WW-2]
The USA
has all the natural resources it needs to survive - we're just too busy (& lazy) burning everyone else's resources to bother developing ours. To be clear: It's enough to survive by any reasonable standard, but not at the stupid-excessive levels we're currently at.
As an example, the state of Montana
alone has;
- Enough coal reserves to power our transportation infrastructure for the next 50-100 years, using the Fischer-Tropsch 'coal-to-diesel' process
- Enough farmland to provide the grain and vegetable necessary to feed 300 million people a year (those numbers are weak though)
- Enough cattle ranching to provide for the US market
- Enough Geothermal energy (Yellowstone Caldera) to provide power for our static electrical grid (static= wall outlets, not transportation)
...and that's not tapping into any of the other 49 states yet.
NOW, the major question everyone should be asking is "How
hard do we have to kick the American politicians (and then population) in the ass to convince them to put down the Big Mac and Starbucks Coffee, get off their fat lazy ass, and redevelop our national infrastructure?!".
Last edited by rdx-fx (2009-01-29 14:36:11)
