# Sustainable? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sustainable/194783 "2008-01-14T12:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![obi-1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@obi-1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/obi-1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sustainable/194783/5 "2008-01-14T13:54:33Z")
> [@New ride, 240hp VTEC makes the hoes flock...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-ride-240hp-vtec-makes-the-hoes-flock/34362/30): > > The US currency has been removed from the Silver/Gold Standard for a while and it’s been a nice ride, but I think because of the recent years’ devaluation of the USD against all major world currencies combined with the non-asset backed USD (only the “full faith and backing of the United States Treasury”) means we’re dead as a super-power if we don’t correct this problem and someone starts picking our legs off. Did the gold standard even mean anything? I was watching the history of Ft. Knox the other day. The US didn’t even have the gold standard until some time in the 30’s. The really messed up thing is that it was illegal to own gold. At the time you had to exchange your gold for US currency. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sustainable/194783)._