First-year UEPer Kendall Webster forwarded this email from a friend of hers (slightly edited; this is a family blog):

oh man, i just watched this movie

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

and now i'm kinda bugging out. i think i'm going to look into moving to new zealand anyway, even with obama as president. i read all these books, like "the end of oil" "resource wars" "the hydrogen economy" and a bunch more like them two years ago, and i became convinced it was just a matter of time before [stuff] started to collapse. now i'm seeing the current economic disaster as the beginning of the real collapse, and i'm still really not ready. i've got the boat, and the food, and the gas, but not enough food, and no weapons, and not enough training/ practice on the boat which isn't even in the water right now. my old plan was to have sold the house and gotten out of here, but i got so caught up in trying to make ends meet and work and all, then the election... it kinda got pushed aside and i was feeling good about america again. now i think it's too late and we're [in loads of trouble] no matter what.

sorry for that big spout off. i'm spending the day tomorrow shopping for some [freaking] guns and buying more food. you must think i'm nuts.