An Alternative Universe Scenario (A Choose Your Own Adventure Book)

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The year is 2006, John Kerry is president, and in his first year he has sucessfully argued for the creation of an agency/task force to create alternatives to fossil fuels -- sort of a Man-On-The-Moon-And-Safely-To-Earth thing.

This new think tank suceeds, and creates hydrogen cars and all sorts of scientific shit that involce renewable energy sources.

Jobs are created in new US auto-producing concerns.

There is music of worth on the radio.

With this new technology in place, Kerry orders a full withdrawl of all US presence from the Middle East, sanctions all nations harboring terrorists, or suspected of such (basically ALL of them). After all, if there is no need for foreign oil, why be there in the fist place? All bases are closed in the middle east within eight months, and all nations -- Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Syria et al. are left to their own devices. He wins world suppourt through latin america and most of the EU and the asias do the same. And bin Laden (who was never found for some reason) gets a bit of his own wish as well.

Essentially, the whole world forces the region into isolation.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the eagles win the super bowl!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh for goodness' sake... ...they will NOT.

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Alison Janney and I retire to Malibu

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This premise is clearly boring you all. My bad.

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh for goodness' sake... ...they will NOT.

ok then ... the jets win the super bowl, and they get their stupid stadium on the west side.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

That wouldn't happen until 2012 because of the Olympics. By that time Jeb Bush will be president and I will be in France.

But please, carry on...

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The sanctioned nations launch a series of attacks again Israel (what with no US military presence in the region), who proceed to use their nuclear weapons against Mecca?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

OK... continue with that...

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

if you think Kerry should go to Mars, turn to page 34

if you think Edwards will open a line of BBQ restaurants, turn to page 75

if you think Alex Kerry will start her own band and get signed to Jetset or Merge after about 3-4 records, turn to page 42

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the premise is too much to comprehend at this or perhaps any other hour. I think that Islamist revolution in Saudi Arabia or secular revolution in Iran mgiht be more likely than an attack on israel.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps you're right.

As for Israel, it wasn't on my high-end of concerns in this situation, more about what happens to these Islamist states once oil money goes away what with the region and the religion so tied to the demand. Sure, technology and manufacturing come into play, but involvement with Westerners/foreigners has historically led to trouble; can the region create anything of value that can't be produced domestically?

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You pull US money out of the region and you plunge a lot of people with a relatively high standard of living into poverty. Is this good?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 August 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, what does it mean to isolate a region? Conflict most often happens at borders. Will there be a wall, who will build/police it, and who will be allowed to cross?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 August 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the middle east has ALWAYS been about some commodity being able to fetch lots of $$$, then another commodity comes along & the commodity that made the middle east rich isn't worth shit anymore & the region reverts to shit & then an apocalyptic religion pops up.

twas like that in biblical times (think myrrh and frankincense) and medieval times (slaves and pearls). it can be like that again.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 August 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Conflict most often happens at borders

Seriously, I've wanted to beat up so many of the people shopping there

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Sunday, 29 August 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

!Kung terrorists ululate their way to power and prestige, supplanting the 'damn Jews' as the scourge of the entertainment industry. Due to a strange twist of fate and a few well-placed graduate theses in semoitic theory, Paul Reuben is head of the Ivy League Consortium, a filter into the !Kung dominated Hollywood Scene. With the collaboration of Michael Moore and Paul Reiser (angry over the assocation of the letters P. and R.), Gary Cooper's reborn into the unlikely host of Gary Coleman.

Nobody knows what to do, and somebody asks you.

Do you

A) Move to Los Angeles and start a rival (and necessarily anti-!Kung enclave) half-funded by Mooreons and half by Scientologists, directed by Reiser & Cooper/Colema)....turn to page 90

B) Do some dope and sell aqualungs with (half-ironically) a kid named Jethro ... turn to page 55

C) Say 'fuck it, Jeremy's drunk and posting non-sensically' and go to bed ... turn to page one billion

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 29 August 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

We never have a chance to leave for Follop. The bird-ape that Colin felled in the jungle has roused itself and its fellow creatures for revenge. They surround our spacecraft. Slowly but surely, their sharp beaks and teeth penetrate its metal skin. Colin is a good shot, but his ancient rifle is inadequate. We flee the spaceship. Together with our crew and Colin, we are marooned on this strange planet, left to survive the best we can.
The End

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 29 August 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. What about plastics? Are we also imagining that we have a new resource for them? Or is oil still used for their development?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 29 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that the US would prolly be able to meet its plastics demand from domestic, Canadian and Venzuelan sources if it didn't have to rely on oil for fuel. Also, there are many types of packaging where paper based materials can replace plastic eg cardboard folding cd boxrather than jewelbox.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 29 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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