Wealth Equals Energy

In his book, “Why We Want You to Be Rich”, co-written with Donald Trump, Kiyosaki explains why wealth is equal to energy.

When the price of energy goes down, our wealth goes up. For most people (unless you won energy sources), when the price of energy goes up their wealth comes down.

Economist Stephen Leed talks a lot about the relation of wealth to energy also, especially in his book, “The Coming Economic Collapse” and even more so in its sequel where he says we won’t have the energy to run the machinery necessary to extract more energy.

Basically our whole society is based on sources of energy and heavily dependent on oil and things like this. I remember a couple years ago when oil was surging past $100 a barrel and it had a big effect on business expenses. A lot of businesses were having trouble because transportation of products and goods and become to expensive because of gasoline costs.

Leeb believes that in the not so distant future we will have an energy shortage, more specifically an oil shortage because oil reserves at this point are no longer growing and now shrinking. More importantly, the east is growing into a modern comfortable lifestyle owning more cars, nicer houses and energy driven products.

So far, governments haven’t taken any serious measures or given any real incentives to start building a new infrastructure for alternate energy sources. If we did hit an energy crises, in other words, a shortage of oil, it would take years to setup the infrastructure, even if the technology was ready for alternate energy sources like solar and wind.