[michaelkaer]

I just posted a long piece on one of my blogs. In it I said the three main areas of job growth would be HealthCare, "alternative" or "Green" energy ( which included the new cars they are making that have solar panels built in that recharge the grid after they recharge their own batteries and things like renos of houses to make them more energy efficient) and the third and most likely most important would be farming, specifically organic farming and also specifically growing organic HEMP. The US will have no choice but to let the farmers grow Hemp if they want to stave off starvation. Rationing will be bad enough. Global Trade can only last as long as they have the energy to ship things. Once we go back to the wind powered days (with some modern convienences) it will be back to coffee, sugar, spices and hardy fruits like figs,dates and olives that will still be easily traded. That is further down the time line, but once there is no more easy oil to get it is a surething. When rationing does come(notice I said when, not if) farmers, trucks,trains and emergency vehicle will be the only ones to get the gas that is still left to be got. If Obama was smart he would annouce that the farmers can start to grow hemp as an emergency crop that takes little or no chemicals to produce. All he has to do is declare an emergency, it would not cost him any political points if he frames it correctly. Good luck to us all. The future is bright but only after we go through some dark times.