Re: [FH] americas

Gas...	Gas heaters...	Or electric.

That being said, there are still lots of oil heaters in the northern 
sections, like Mass.  They even had a nasty shortage up there a winter
or 
two back.  Caused an aweful lot of problems, but no one revolted...

Californian's are dealing with nasty electrical shortages, but are
coping...

To get the loss of a utility (even a basic necessity) to spur on an 
interior problem of enough magnitude...  Well, for whatever it's worth,
a 
whole lot of Americans place a lot of faith (however misguided this may
be) 
in their politicians.

That being said, I'd place more faith in a political topic, or 
power-grab/shift higher up, as an underlieing cause, with a shortage of 
some essential as the trigger.

Think Vietnam, Equal-Rights, and gas-shortage sized problems...  And
then 
add in something really nasty.	Maybe great-depression or worse.

Even then, I'm not sure if it'd be enough.  Maybe a states-rights issue 
tossed in.

Oh, and the politicians not being able to find a convenient fall-guy,
like 
Iraq, Russian, or Osama...

Rand.

At 03:27 PM 5/31/02 +1000, you wrote:
>At 12:32  31/05/02 +0900, you wrote:
>>If Coca-Cola went bankrupt, the society would be in chaos within days.
>
>Heating Oil, where does America get the majority of it's heating oil?
>
>I once read a book on Australia and America and their military 
>relationships [non-fiction, honest ;) ] and in the course of the book 
>there was a discussion by the author about what would send America to
war.
>
>The big answer in his opinion was heating oil, just look at all those 
>American cities with those large apartment blocks with central heating.

>How are they going to be heated in winter? Imagine all those people 
>freezing and the resulting chaos as they tried to stay warm, it's not
as 
>if they can go out and chop wood.
>
>Sounds pretty destabilizing to me.
>
>Derek
>
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