Reply #132: Those days are gone and NEVER coming back... [View All]

[The_Commonist]

That Golden Age of the "American Dream" was built on cheap oil.

The country was swimming in oil and everything was less expensive.
We can dream all we want about "the good old days," but unless and until we find a source of energy as cheap and abundant as oil was in those days, everything will be more expensive.

We can blame Reagan and policy all we want, the truth is we will never come close to that lifestyle again without a cheap source of energy. Those days were an anomaly, not the norm, and we would do ourselves a service by looking forward and building a new, acceptable lifestyle rather than looking back to a time that we will never, ever recreate...