I remember riding as a backseat hitchhiker in San Francisco, late 1973. The driver was kvetching about the cost of gas. The front seat passenger, another hitchhiker, big, black, and female, interrupted him, and with slow, sure command, stated, while pounding her chest, “The energy crisis . . . is . . . IN US!”

That was during the first of two “energy crises” in the 1970s.

BTW: Did you know that both Daylight Savings Time and a 55 mph speed limit on nation’s highways were instituted by Nixon in attempts to offset that first “oil shock,” with its skyrocketing price of gas 1973-1974? (This speed limit was changed in 1995).

The hitchhiking woman in the front seat was right. And she’s still right. The energy crisis is, it always is, in us. Whatever is appearing on the outside mirrors what’s going on inside. If we feel the “scarcity” of gas, and thus higher demand, higher price, then we will contract in fear, try to grab what’s left for ourselves. On the contrary, if we feel the overflowing abundance of the universe, running deep in and through the center of our beings, then the world around us reflects and magnifies that inner glow.

That’s the expanded meta-physical 5D view.

Now let’s head back down into 3D, and whatever are the shenanigans in the Mideast, Russia, China, the U.S., etc. reflected now, in the apparent scarcity of this product that still keeps the whole world going? Besides, we’ve learned, in the last few years, that the Green New Deal’s favorite new sources of energy, wind turbines and solar panels, depend, yes, on wind and sun — which can and do “turn off.”  (Remember the bitter winter week in Texas, December 2021?) Furthermore, both technologies degrade in a few short years and morph into very expensive, poisonous waste, when “thrown away.”

Then there’s nuclear power plants, which contain radioactive uranium. Furthermore, nuclear power plants are built near water, usually  lakes or rivers, used to cool the reactors. Rivers and lakes can and do flood . . . As did the ocean, via a tsunami, used to cool the reactors at Fukushima.

Furthermore, the fabled future of “free energy” is not yet upon us, thanks to whoever it is that keeps either “disappearing” inventors and/or buying up their technologies in order to shelve them.

So we’re back to hydrocarbons, better known as oil (and gas), produced, supposedly, from “fossil fuels,” by which is really meant decaying organic matter, continuously organically produced by earth in the natural turnover cycles of her insects, plants, trees, animals of all kinds — not just dinosaur skeletons from millions of years ago. 

The video below offers an interesting perspective on oil, its deceptive branding as “fossil fuel,” and the manufacture of “scarcity” to jack up prices and keep them as high as possible, given the laws of supply and demand. What’s interesting to me is Prouty’s remark that oil, being nearly ubiquitous, is rather like water, so its price could vary depending on location and ease of extraction. But: he says, what happened — of course! — is that the masters of the universe wanted to decide a “world price” for oil, so that they could centralize control over it,  and that part of the deal would be propaganda, a cultural psy-op: make customers think that oil is scarce, and that it’s a “fossil fuel” (by which they implied, just from dinosaurs, a finite supply that takes millions of years to form), all in order to jack up the price.

Actually, as Prouty mentions there are several theories of how oil is produced — the biotic theory (from organic matter) and the abotic theory. Here’s an even-handed discussion that includes reasons for and against each one, plus the possibility that both are true.

http://petroleum.co.uk/abiotic-oil-formation

But I cannot help but ask: it really true that biotic oil takes millions of years to form from decaying organic matter (dinosaurs)?

Here’s a possible counterexample, a lab experiment written up in 1990, however,and I don’t know what’s happened since.

How Fast Can Oil Form?

Here’s another youtube video about the subject, but by this time I’m starting to get overwhelmed . . . my left brain can only handle so much before wanting to spring back into the mysterious right brain . . .

Oh, and . . . as a lifelong catastrophist, is it any surprise that I got completely pulled into Hubbert’s Peak Oil theory?

But now I can recognize its silver lining: it was in thinking that transportation of food would grind to a halt that got me into permaculture, and permaculture that got me into thinking locally, and thinking locally that got me into thinking right here, right now:  This cascading thought process released my own internal energy to ignite, shepherd, and continue to evolve a tiny, sustainable, regenerative, urban paradise with three homes and common patio, greenhouse, food and flower gardenss: Green Acres Permaculture Village.

Which leads me to my final insight for today. What may appear to be a mistake in the short run (being suckered into the Peak Oil theory), when seen in retrospect, transforms into a personal and collective growing point of immense and fruitful value.

And, now that current geopolitical conditions are leading to exactly what we feared back in the early terror-of-Peak-Oil years of the 21st century, those of us who followed through with our predictions by changing the way we live get labeled as prophets and pioneers.

Go figure!