[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', 'i') just wanted to see how you all found out about Peak Oil so that i can get a better idea of how to spread the word about the impending doom.

For me, it was when i was bored one day,so i typed 'when the oil runs out' into google

[benzoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', '
')Hey, you saying I'm one of those wacky "conspiracy theorists"?

[evilgenius]

I had the idea in the 90's just because, but always figured 2020. In the late 90's I picked up a copy of Popular Science/Mechanics (can't remember which). They detailed the stats on world discovery falling below demand around 2010. I dialed into it more extensively after that. I think LATOC might have been one of the first PO sites I visited. I trolled this site for awhile before I posted anything.

[cavemandoom30]

I saw a tiny mico-article in Rolling Stone about the LATOC website, and a bit more about Kuntsler, and The Long Emergency book. I went and checked out the LATOC site, I think I sat in front of the computer all night, just following links and reading about peak oil nonstop. I spent the next 3-6 months reading all I could about everything peal oil related, and eventually decided all I could do was to start to prepare as best I could, so, I switched my reading to gardening, survival, homesteading, type of stuff, and here we are now///

[dohboi]

I had a strong impression back in the '70's that we were withing a few decades of running into resource limits. But my recent intro was an interview with Kunstler in a local paper. I ran out and got his book, then Heinbergs, and it was all down the hole from there.

Even though he may go overboard on some of his doomerism, it sounds like Kunstler's been pretty important for a lot of people's awareness here!

[Gerontion]

I had a rabbit to cook one evening and wasn't sure how to joint it and by the kind of wonderful serendipity that is the internet's strength, I ended up here. As my post count shows, I don't contribute much but I read PO everyday and I am inordinately grateful both to this site and to theoildrum for removing the scales.

[billp]

Our high school chemistry teacher, Mr Agerter, worked for the oil industry before teaching high school.

Mr Agerter told our chemistry class about peak oil in 1955 or 1956.

Acceleration of slope of oil production may have gone from + to - in about 1956.

Any comments ... or corrections for septuagenian senior citizen attempting to do differential calculus?

best
bill

Guys.

I was on sabbatical leave a UI champaign in computer science in 1972-3 when the first gas crunch hit.

And just went to work for Sandia Labs in 1980 when the Iraq\Iran war started.

[pigleg]

Me dad always picks up current science books that I borrow, so he had Deffeyes' book a few years back.

So, I read it, tried to find flaws in the facts... couldn't! Oh oh. Started to get worried, checked the internet and then was stunned to learn that the situation is potentially even more serious.

[K6-III]

Watching Congressman Bartlett speak before congress.

[TheDude]

Read about the world starting to run out of oil in the Science/Technology supplement of the World Book encyclopedias, 1978 edition, when I was 7. Tender young age for a doomer! Early 21st century was the prognosis. We'd have to switch to fuel cells, or electric cars. Duh...ok. All through the 80s/90s I'd tell people we'll start to run out of oil in a few decades, and they'd think I was nuts, it was like saying we're going to drain the Pacific ocean.

Read the Population Bomb back when, too - always figured they were close to the truth. Came across the dieoff.org website about 6 years back, and read a Long Emergency excerpt a few years ago - also heard Jim on NPR, talking to Terry Gross I think. "Fresh Air" indeed. His book really got me hooked.

[PraiseDoom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', '
')so how did you find out about it?

[HEADER_RACK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PraiseDoom', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', '
')so how did you find out about it?

[MonteQuest]

Read Limits to Growth 1972.

[CarnbY]

I first heard of Peak Oil in an interview with the band Corrosion of Conformity (whose logo is my avatar). I'm not sure if the site was mentioned in the interview, but LATOC is the first place I read some more in-depth about the subject. Found this forum right after... I think it was back in '04/'05

[sirrom]

thanks for all the reply's.

it appears that most of you found out about peak oil while doing your own research for something or you heard about it in an interview.

now i just need to think about how to get people to do thier own research into peak oil,which is probably quite hard.

[NotMyBlood]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', 't')hanks for all the reply's.

it appears that most of you found out about peak oil while doing your own research for something or you heard about it in an interview.

now i just need to think about how to get people to do thier own research into peak oil,which is probably quite hard.

[PraiseDoom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', '
')now i just need to think about how to get people to do thier own research into peak oil,which is probably quite hard.

[sirrom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PraiseDoom', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sirrom', '
')now i just need to think about how to get people to do thier own research into peak oil,which is probably quite hard.

[rumble]

Heard it mentioned a few times in the late nineties - thought it was just about oil not being available forever. A few years ago - there was a reference to it in a book I read, but I still didn't know all the details - like how urgent it was. For some reason, I had it in my head that this was a theory for maybe 2040 or something. Then my husband/boyfriend watched a documentary about Cuba and mentioned peak oil to me.

As I just became more and more aware that this type of lifestyle just isn't sustainable and feels wrong, I kept looking for sustainable communities. I could just feel the impending doom ahead, but didn't know what it was going to be.

Then I came across The Long Emergency.

[Cloud9]

Flu wiki, a great site for caring and giving but not much on the dark side of killing and getting. When the discussion turned to home security it was suggested that I might want to visit the gun thread.