the fog of incomplete information that surrounds it. Kunstler sees this

incident as further proof that the peak oil story is real. Now that the low

hanging fruit of our oil resources has been plucked, the paradigms of our

car-dependent society are forcing us to drill under difficult conditions that

are hard to control. The return of $4 gallons of gasoline is not far around the

next corner and the trauma from this event is already provoking strange

emotional outbursts and pockets of denial from the public who do not want to

get off the path of Happy Motoring. JHK also believes that the escalating and

increasing failures of liberal democracy in the U.S. are getting to the point

where American people don't trust the government to be competent anymore. Ecological

disasters are amplifying economic disasters, which are feeding a political

disaster. In the end, this event may accelerate the process of America rethinking

how its living and whether in fact maybe what we're doing is insane, especially

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