Does anybody actually read Rolling Stone? Can't say I ever ran across anybody who does. Via Land of Black Gold, I found an article which predicts Wal-Mart's demise due to declining oil output:
The way that commerce is currently organized in America will not survive far into the Long Emergency. Wal-Mart's "warehouse on wheels" won't be such a bargain in a non-cheap-oil economy. The national chain stores' 12,000-mile manufacturing supply lines could easily be interrupted by military contests over oil and by internal conflict in the nations that have been supplying us with ultra-cheap manufactured goods, because they, too, will be struggling with similar issues of energy famine and all the disorders that go with it.
Posted by Bob on April, 2 2005 at 12:40 AM
