I have been following the Peak Oil thing since 2008. Did not think anyone else here would be into it because basically it means the end of industrial civilization and that is something most people are not ready to face. Like Boomer mass-suicide not ready.

Next year is really going to suck for Hawaii. Get ready for $8 a gallon of gas or more, plus everything else will be way more expensive and no tourists when plane tickets cost $3000 for coach.

I have been following the Peak Oil thing since 2008. Did not think anyone else here would be into it because basically it means the end of industrial civilization and that is something most people are not ready to face. Like Boomer mass-suicide not ready.

Next year is really going to suck for Hawaii. Get ready for $8 a gallon of gas or more, plus everything else will be way more expensive and no tourists when plane tickets cost $3000 for coach.

Makes you miss Linda Lingle, she suspended the state fuel tax and balanced the budget by holding back tax refunds for 6 months when the economy was turning to sh*t. The current city and state are going to have to tax the hell out of everything to pay for the 18 month paid COVID  vacation they gave all the workers. Also they are going to have a smaller revenue base to tax since they killed so many businesses with forced shutdowns.

Enjoy your Top Ramen.

How did Lingle fuck over the state? Just saying things doesnt make them so. Put up or Shut up. Or run away as always.

She made so many cuts that it really messed up staffing.  There's a huge age gap from those times.   

More detailed answers I was too young to first hand experience.   But I do see the effects.

Uh, that happens with the regular cycles of economic ups and downs. Happened before I got out of college and the “huge age gap” was there and a big reason I moved home. It will happen again. Tide changes like that happen all over the world on a regular basis where things go in cycles of void and filling of voids. That you think you’re seeing something special or going through something unique is laughable and just proves how ignorant you are.

Oh yeah. And FIge is doing a hellova job 

How did Lingle fuck over the state? Just saying things doesnt make them so. Put up or Shut up. Or run away as always.

OGs retarded answer is very telling, xhe obviously works for the state and in a completely useless and bloated department. Add in xhis known love of all communist propaganda, good bet its the DOE.

'I am too young to know what happened, I just know other people said it was bad'.

Yup that level of idiocy I am going with DOE

If someone is to blame, blame the government workers' union.  They negotiated contracts that increased pay and benefits.  But, in order to afford the increases, positions had to be cut.

CONGRATULATIONS!  Your union managed to get a 10% increase in salaries and totally free healthcare in the new contract.  The bad news is 20% of the workers will be filling for unemployment.

“He’s so ignorant, he doesn’t even know he’s ignorant” - adaptation from North Shore

SNIP (re: Nia)

She is (or was) so cute.  Please post more of those.  Less of Crazie Mazie and Pilau Pelosi.  Barforama