RE: Chicken Little
Fred notices James Howard Kunstler’s excerpt in Rolling Stone, and wonders if it’s really all that bad. Actually, it appears he desperately wants someone to convince him it’s not.
The opening paragraph of the Rolling Stone excerpt:
A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Times business section. Apparently, the price of oil is not considered significant news, even when it goes up five bucks a barrel in the span of ten days. That same day, the stock market shot up more than a hundred points because, CNN said, government data showed no signs of inflation. Note to clueless nation: Call planet Earth.
Maybe after reading the piece, someone out there will feel a gust of confindence to help reassure Fred…
