I apologize if I came across as rude because I did not respond to your comment but as before on this site and others that I have left comments, I did not want it to turn into a polemic merry-go-round because I simply do not have the time to interact. Blogging and interacting on the internet is indeed time consuming.

So in response to your comment on 4/17 @ 11:49 am, I will leave this:

You are correct in saying no one knows for sure the reserve estimates but I will say that the earth's crust contains only so much oil that can be extracted for a (and here's the operative word) "reasonable cost",
that even no amount of money or brain can change that fact and the reason the oil industry needs all the technology is because oil is becoming more difficult to find and extract. And yet all our technology has been unable to prevent the decline in US oil production over the past 30 years.

Money and brains cannot repeal basic geological laws. Since there is only a finite number of economic oil patches in the world, global oil production must eventually decline.

Now we have food crisis due to shortages around the globe due to not only demand but high gas prices for fuel to transport that food and a shortage of wheat and corn from ethanol production. Rice has nearly doubled.

I read in the Economist that Brazil was the latest country to find oil. Rio Je Janero (I think I spelled that right) was the exact place. Apparently this puts them as an oil producing country on par with Saudi Arbia and Venezuella. But Venezuella's oil is crappy compared to the light sweet crude from the Saudi fields.

We get most of our oil from the Canadian tar sands and we are the leading coal producing country in the world, but burning coal to make gasoline emits fossil fuels into the ozone causing "global warming".

The History Channel aired a fantastic program called "Oil Armeggeddon" on their Mega Disasters series. Fantastic production and a very likely senerio in the near future, probally more so then a giant earthquake in California.

Nations go to war over oil..........it is the very lifeline of their economy. It is OIL that keeps the global economy affloat.........take it away and you will see a massive crisis.

According to them as long as we are morally good we're all headed to the same place.

Some of these bills are still in circulation.....you will know them by denominations of $1, $2, and $5 and a red seal on the black and white side. It's a seal on the right side and it's typically green on your normal Fed Reserve note. But on the US note, it says "United States Note" and Douglas Dillion's signature appears as Secretary of Treasury.

There were $4 billion of these put into circulation but it's interesting that just a few months after this plan was put into action, JFK was assassinated.

It is an engine that has created private wealth that is unimaginable, even to the most financially sophisticated. It has enabled an imperial elite to manipulate our economy for its own agenda and has enlisted the government as its enforcer.

The writter of Hebrews address his Jewish Christian friends that they need not resort back to their old traditions and rituals for Christ has opened a new and better way making the old Levitical system of priests making sacrifices for sin as an atonement obsolete.

But as you said Preacher Jon, the natural man does not and cannot understand the Truth of God because the Truth of God can only be discerned spiritually through the Holy Spirit which lost people do not possess ( I Corinthians 2:10-16).

I don't make a comment to share the gospel with GG, he already has been told a hundred thousand times, I respond only to call him DECEITFUL, and full of "dead men's bones".

Of course GG is a jesuit priest infiltrating a Christian website in hot pursuit of seeking the "lost brethern"..........the only problem is, he will find himself in the lost caverns of Hell separated from a loving God burning in the lake of fire for all Eternity because he REFUSED to submit to the gospel which is the Righteousness of Christ apart from the law!

He understands that the almighty dollar is quickly and rapidly loosing its power and that this economy which has global consequences, is quickly going down the toilet.

This is why a few elite powerful men are trying to merge Canada and Mexico with the U.S......for that is the only way to save this country.....they think anyway. I mean after all, that is what large corporations due in the business world to save a company......they merge to keep from going under.