[frankthetank]

How many hits from cia.gov and kremlin.com did we get this month???

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')wentieth century fox 128

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'W')hat is the metric being reported ?

Nike is pretty high - just do it!

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'W')hat is the metric being reported ?

Nike is pretty high - just do it!

[mgtser]

MIT Tech

wwwooww..

[Heineken]

Gives me the creeps, Aaron. As though we're being studied by aliens.

[FoolYap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')lthough I can understand the reluctance of many to actively participate in the discussions here... & some are undoubtedly here to get info etc... I wanted to say hi to all our many corporate visitors.

So a hale & hearty shout-out to all you cube denizens out there in the business community.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'W')hat is the metric being reported ?

Nike is pretty high - just do it!

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgtser', 'M')IT Tech

wwwooww..

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'H')ow many hits from cia.gov and kremlin.com did we get this month???

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Concerned', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('frankthetank', 'H')ow many hits from cia.gov and kremlin.com did we get this month???

[Aaron]

The past 2 years at peakoil.com have seen a number of significant developments as we begin experiencing the first symptoms of oil depletion. Oil prices have risen dramatically during this period and we have seen the spread of this inflationary pressure into the most vulnerable markets and countries first, as one would expect. Agricultural products have begun their relentless march skyward as fuel-sensitive crops absorb higher fuel costs. Crops which can also be used as transport fuels have risen the most (corn etc...), but all produce and livestock products have outpaced overall inflation.

Oil production globally has been flat for almost the entire 2 years. Even with oil prices sky high at never before seen prices, no large production increases have materialized. It has become increasingly clear that the reason producers cannot ramp up production is because they simply don't have the supplies or infrastructure to pump more oil. Shale & Tar Sand projects have become profit centers. Super deep water fields become economically viable. Algae, Bio-Diesel, CTL. Surely the advent of these exotic technologies confirms that conventional crude oil has peaked in production and is beginning it's inevitable decline.

The mainstream media has also begun publishing about Peak Oil and depletion topics. What was “fringe” news before is suddenly legitimate front page news (ala The Wall Street Journal); among many notable others. So congratulations to our members and all the other people who helped make this awareness a reality. The job is not done by any measure, but it is where it is today in part, because of the interest & efforts of this web community. You have all earned a really big “I told you so...” moment with the whole world.

I recall Dr. Bakhitari correctly predicting $50/bbl oil, and the shocked impression that left on the oil analyst community. He was humble & polite in his email correspondence as always, even while the world stood speechless in the shadow of $50 oil. Special recognition is due this courageous man who educated and advocated for Peak Oil until the day he died. It is more than a little disconcerting telling this story now, with oil prices at historic highs.

A special note of thanks to our volunteer staff for all their efforts. We literally could not do this without you. You all make this place what it is, and for that I thank each of you.

We look forward to serving this community as we continue the journey down Hubbert's Peak in the coming years. Mother nature may very well have the last laugh on mankind... but it won't be because we stopped trying to spread the word. Regards everyone,
Aaron Dunlap

Now... for some juicy statistics. You will find us on the first page searching Google for Oil News. (http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+news ... US232US232)

You will also find us on the first page Googling for “oil”. (http://www.google.com/search?q=oil+news ... US232US232)

According to Google, you people have made PeakOil.com one of the most important resources on the web for understanding oil and current energy events. Well done.

In links (69,600) (websites linking PeakOil.com) Alexa Rank Peakoil.com has a traffic rank of: 133,432

Statistics: Over 4 million visits.
Over 1 million unique visitors.
Over 22 million pages served.
An average of over 5 pages per visit, and around a 30% bounce rate. Almost 9 minutes average time on the site per visit.

We signed up 6,100 new members & had almost 13,000 news story submissions.

4,044,659 visits came from 217 countries/territories:
United States 2,395,774
Canada 339,885
United Kingdom 279,224
Australia 130,765
Netherlands 90,918
Sweden 74,759
Germany 68,405
New Zealand 64,196
France 56,688
Finland 56,612

4,044,659 visits came from 17,480 cities:
(not set) 347,058
London 83,473
New York 58,295
Tempe 52,173
Seattle 42,322
Chicago 40,963
Sydney 40,368
Toronto 40,148
Houston 37,781
Auckland 37,324

We have assembled an impressive on line resource base with many useful and interesting tools and knowledge base applications.

Our forums: http://www.peakoil.com/gate.html?name=Forums
Peak TV http://tv.peakoil.com/
Our Blog http://depletion.blogspot.com/
PeakSpeak http://www.peakoil.com/contentid-9.html
Our Wiki: http://www.peakoil.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Opinion Polls http://www.peakoil.com/modules.php?name=Surveys
Web Links http://www.peakoil.com/gate.html?name=Web_Links
News Archives http://www.peakoil.com/journal.html

[FireJack]

I got into the whole thing by noticing a article in the toronto star while buying groceries. It was about the video end of suberbia and looking up peak oil on google landed me here. Going to make a real effort to get some gardening practice this year as things are starting to get bad now, for us in the 1st world countries anyway.

[pjd2]

I was driving home from a wedding as Katrina was hitting NOLA. I knew of the ports and knew gas would spike soon. My imagination wandered, and I imagined a future without oil, and traveling down that same road on horseback. A couple days later, only out of curiousity and boredom, I remembered my fantasy, and I googled "how much oil is left?"... ... ... and then i joined the forums.

[Last_Laff]

Upgrade the server. Speed up connections. Spice up the features. Keep the backward compatibility for slow users. Some threads are so slow than others. Why?

That's all we can ask for.

And oh, we need a nicer admins who don't stay behind the curtains.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Last_Laff', 'U')pgrade the server. Speed up connections. Spice up the features. Keep the backward compatibility for slow users. Some threads are so slow than others. Why? That's all we can ask for. And oh, we need a nicer admins who don't stay behind the curtains.

[julianj]

And also a round of applause for Aaron the Gorilla and all the mods and backroom people.

thanks for all you've done.

Julian

[Laurasia]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('julianj', 'A')nd also a round of applause for Aaron the Gorilla and all the mods and backroom people.

thanks for all you've done.

[Gandalf_the_White]

Thanks for posting that Aaron. Congratulations on the new baby too!

[Pops]

4 years and 15 days officially.
And not done harpin' on Doing For The Future yet!

Why I 'member when my stats said I had posted 20-30% of the total on the site - just trolling for Peakers so the site wouldn't die like some others I had seen. In fact I'd like to hear who else was posting back then, lots of us posted as guests, I know A., Pup and Matt were [posting then].


Aside from all the members who add their experience and research daily and the volunteers who try to keep us relatively in line, special thanks to Dan, Aaron, Shanny, and MD who have done a great job of keeping the site up and running. I have no idea about nuts and bolts but I do know there have been significant growing pains in the server/feature/hacker areas.

It is great to have a knowledge rich site with only one little Google ad window.


I was wondering when the site actually went live? I found post #5 from 3/9/04...