tdos - I wasn't aware of the full extent of russian oil fields being factored into peak oil figures. I chuckle at how I steeped into amerocentricism I was prior to the back half of the 20-teens. I never counted on the yield of the frakfields keeping gas prices down either. What new offwhite swan wonders are in store that that remain hidden from lack of knowledge and/or confirmation bias? I also figure the Russians are fully capable of extracting their reserves without the help of the west. Russian shovels in the hands of North Koreans outta be able to dig plenty of oil wells, bwahahaha!
(Raff's marrying his high school sweetheart in Kansas City this November)

RE - Neosho, a small city of 12,000 in SW Missouri had a high school that had a bunch of old school teachers and a champion level debate team. Wife taught english/lit at the community college in that city. Our homestead was about thirty miles from there... sold the farm and moved to town since the local high school was football, pickup trucks, pregnant girls and meth.

Had to spend 6 years in industrial america - forklift, machine operator, line prole etc. Got the boy through Missouri U without student debt. I'm one of the few living the american dream... your kids do better than you. Granted, acid soaked hippie is a low bar :-D

Wwoofing is a cool deal for those who (operative word) want to work on organic farms, though those are in this day and age rather scarce. Coupling the pyrocene topic with more labor intensive agricultural practices I have been thinking about an observation - the price of no hormone grass-fed hamburger is within 10 or 15 percent of crunched up big ag dairy cow burger. Stringing electric fence daily for mob grazing pasture rotation would be an ideal solution for a half dozen guys on a large ranch. More acreage will be suited to well managed grasslands as climate shifts northward over the coming decades. The authentic "Cowboy" may once again be in demand.