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Not sure how many minimum wage families own their own houses, but that might factor into it.

There are real troubles on the horizon man.  Big ones.  Falling dollar, lower interest rates are gonna lead to inflation.  Creditors are getting squirrely because of fucktards like Cuomo suing/subpoenaing them.  That's gonna make it real hard for people to get any type of loan, not just mortgages.  Home equity is going down the crapper and therefore people aren't gonna spend. As I'm sure you've already heard, our economy is like 70% consumer driven...when the consuming stops, so does the economy.  Oil ain't gonna get any cheaper either.  We haven't opened a new refinery since like the '70's or something.  On the 'plus' side, Brazil just found like 80 million barrels of oil in an 'ultradeep' well somewhere in the atlantic. 

You know as well as anybody, we can't (as a civilization) continue on the way we've been living indefinitely.  The gears are gonna grind to a halt and a lot of people are gonna feel it. 

The economy is incredibly similar to 1929, and 1987, pre-crash, according to my professor, who knows his shit.

I had a coke out of an old coke machine yesterday..you know, the little glass bottles. It was pretty cool...$1.50 was a steep price for a novelty, but what the heck. Yeah, you had to put the quarters in, then open the door, and when you used the bottle opener, the cap like, automatically went in. It was really cool. I had a really good steak and cheese also...teryaki steak and cheese to be exact.

I know, right!? This is insane!  My landlords told me I'd have to pay $900 to fill my oil tank, but it's like psh, yeahright.  So now I'm using an electric space heater, which may well cost me more in the long run.  But I can't afford that lump sum, and they said it would have to be filled all the way full. 

Yeah...I remember when everyone was saying that electric heat was the most expensive and how much it would suck to have electric heat...well I have electric heat and my electric bill is about $150 bucks a month in the wintertime...that's including lights, appliances, heat, hot water...and I have a 7 month old child (i.e. lots of laundry) and my wife is home during the day using the lights and appliances...etc. So in my most humble opinion...I would SO rather have electric heat right now rather than oil.

So who's up for building a community of solar powered houses with me?

Brian,

that sounds like a solution, and we Americans don't like solutions, so why don't you just move your solution-loving, rational self to France.