I don't get the sports metaphor at all... I don't watch sportsball. What I do know is that the amount of energy and material resources required to extract a ba

I don't get the sports metaphor at all... I don't watch sportsball. What I do know is that the amount of energy and material resources required to extract a barrel of oil out of ground has been slowly rising towards parity with the energy contained in that oil. I'm now of the mind that politics, the environment, and everything else is a back burner issue until this is solved. I'm starting to use the phrase "I don't give a shit about global warning" (though, actually I do), just to diffuse the politics of it, and stay on topic. There have been decades of decisions made with a total blindness to the fact that the oil we're burning is priced orders of magnitude cheaper than it should have been. As a society, we're acting like the trust fund kids spending our Earth's energy inheritance with no mind towards the future.