It is said in order for Mosami bin Ladden to beat USA, he aims for collapse of economy. So the oil crisis in the mid east are at this great war, where all the oils supposedly to be imported back to usa. But this trade is a hard one, because USA has to be in the war. ( the israel war , lebabnon
We have needed to get off the oil fix since the 1970’s embargo. The government, ha ha, needs to fund alternative energy research, ha ha.
In spite of the government’s lack or response, many in the West are turning green. Using recycled jeans for insulation, solar energy panels, wind farms are huge going from Banning to Palm Springs. The liberals like Kennedy do not want them in their backyards, but tough shit, we have to get off the fix to save ourselves from the pollution and save our economy.
Dan, this is history repeating itself. There may be another embargo.
With regards,
aspacia 
The solution?
Innovation.
Next crisis?
The water wars.
Satyr,
Water wars? How so? More expensive water perhaps, but we’ve gone to ultra-filtered water as the solution rather than cleaning up the things that cause the need for filtration. We can bathe in relatively ‘dirty’ water, but filter the hell out of potables. Cost would seem to be the issue. Tap water in LA may be safe to drink, but I don’t want to know where it’s been…
Water Wars
In North America the problem isn’t as pronounced yet.
Canada has huge amounts of water still.
But in areas such as the middle East – yes there again – the issue is starting to become serious.
Iraq and Syria have had problems with Turkey’s damming of the rivers that flow from it down through Iraq.
Hum, reverse osmosis. This is a fraction of the current desalination expense. I am no scientist, but read about it in Discover. It appears to work.
This would be less expensive than say an aquaduct from the rain drenched areas to the dry climates.
L.A. water in unfit to drink, unless you enjoy drinking super chlorinated pool water.
Many areas, say San Bernardino, Redlands, etc., have natural resources from the underground Santa Ana River and Big Bear Lake. L.A. has been attempting to purchase water rights for years, but we said NO as we remember Owens Valley and the fact that once you sell water rights there is no return, the rights are forever.
With regards,
aspacia
Satyr,
I didn’t mention desalinization. I just figured it a one of the ‘filtering’ cost. Absolutely there would be a disparity in the cost of water depending on the geographical area. I’m sure we’d end up in international courst squabbling over wter rights for rivers flowing from one country to another, but war over water seems a little extreme. In my neck of the woods, we’ve been fighting over water rights almost since dirt. Rights for power generation, agriculture, recreation, industry, and the infamous so-called salmon recovery efforts make for some interesting government meetings. 
How cost effective is desalinization?
first we discuss oil, now we are discussing water wars. You people read too much comic books or too much cartoons or too much video games.
High oil price is not a crisis, it might slow down the economy in oil-dependent countries but the important thing is that rising oil prices improve the competitive position of cleaner energy sources, so it’s good news. Of course if our leaders are dumb enough to use force to keep down oil price, then we will have a crisis, but that’s a voluntary crisis of our own making. Rising oil prices and resource scarcity do not magically force an inevitable crisis upon us because we have loads of other energy resources to utilize.
As for water wars, it is an overhyped topic I think. There was a good paper in State of The World 2004 or 2005 about how most experience with sharing water resources between riparian states have been positive, even when they the states are antagonistic. Mutual benefit is usually easily grasped if you live by the same river, and if someone wanted to wage war to gain better access to water, it would essentially mean a large-scale, permanent conquest of foreign land. At least in today’s world, it is difficult to imagine that even the dumbest dictator would see that as his best option.
ask the israelians, they do it 
don’t i know it, it’s a major issue in colorado, but then we have 90% of the worlds water lawyers, though it doesn’t help most of the rivers this side of the mississippi start here in colorado.
you want to be confused go into the water right laws, makes our tax laws look sane.
i’ve been told that Las Vegas has already started building pipes to colorado inorder to get water, the funny part, they don’t have the rights to the water yet, they just figure by the time it’s done they well have them, lol