Half Empty!                                                                                                                               

Questions and Answers are cited below as "Q" and "A"

1. Q: What is half empty?

A: In just the last hundred years, we managed to use up about half of all the oil and natural gas in the world. Now, with China and India growing rapidly and the U.S. consuming even more energy faster, escalating demand will drive prices to staggering levels, triggering an economic shock wave that will stun the industrialized world.

2. Q: What is the answer to the warning?

A: The answer "Kiss Your Lifestyle Goodbye."

The author of "Half Empty" assures us that "The Long Emergency will change everything about how we live in the United States, and even whether we remain a single nation."

3. Q: What do we do then?

A: We Americans were once a nation of honest, resourceful, and earnest people. We knew the difference between wishing for things and actually working to make things happen. We will have to reclaim those qualities if we are going to survive."

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cc: George W. Bush, President
George H.W. Bush, Former President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
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Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government
Israel's "Women In Green"
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Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist
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Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips, Medical Books for China International
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