here's something my professor shared with our class, i found it to be pretty thought-provoking. check it out

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259

Thanks for posting it. I briefly skimmed it and it looks like an interesting analysis. I'll read it more carefully tomorrow, but thanks for posting something like this to off-topic

this is all very interesting stuff... however the US economy is too big to collapse; it is quite possible that many other economies will follow. I think more likely scenario is that US will be chinese slave.

We already are if you ask me.

So basically then, in seventeen years the United States will be back on top?