[KevO]

peak oil gone viral on you tube - though I suggest watching it with your eyes closed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPf9V3_li0

[Sixstrings]

Wow this is brilliant marketing. What I wonder though is who's behind this????????

It's way too polished for this to really be coming from an attractive young woman -- I get the impression this is an actress hired to "vlog" on youtube. But hired by whom?

Everything she says is uber doomer though.. like "if you don't live near a farm, then no food for you." She's in line with all the hardcore doomer views, so it can't be a mainstream oil group behind this.

But if she is coming up with all this on her own, very impressive.

EDIT: Oh this is great, my favorite line:

"So what can you do about peak oil? Nothing, seriously, nothing. It's too late for cheery myths."

[Sixstrings]

I googled "oilycassandra." There's definitely another individual or some group behind this; there's a myspace page setup with the same pink theme, and also a website: http://www.oilrelease.com/

On the website, there's a link to LATOC. Again, it's brilliant marketing and I approve the message -- but I think they should be honest and upfront about what person or group is behind this marketing campaign.

[DoomersUnite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', 'p')eak oil gone viral on you tube - though I suggest watching it with your eyes closed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAPf9V3_li0

[Pretorian]

Why bother selling it anyway? Adsense income?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomersUnite', '
')Its an old video. And peak oil isn't going viral because of it.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Y')es, it's ancient.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I still wonder who's behind it.. their website is still up (so somebody's been paying the bill the last 3 years).

[KevO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Y')es, it's ancient.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'W')hat makes you think she couldn't do all this herself? You think it's prohibitive to put up a youtube video and a low-traffic website?

[DoomersUnite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Y')es, it's ancient.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomersUnite', 'N')ope. Peak oil happened years ago now and we're all still here, posting away, pretending that old videos are new videos because why?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')And in the videos she says "we" not I, one part of the other video she says "send us your ideas" but doesn't say who "us" is. Anyhow I could be wrong, just smells like viral marketing to me.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')the whole resource-influenced financial crisis, has been a new chapter. There was no doom on this scale back in '06, '05, '04.

[DoomersUnite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')But slowly, gradually, things are falling apart. Like the frog in the boiling water that doesn't notice cuz it's so gradual.

[Crazy_Dad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomersUnite', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
So now, as we continue to grind our way through the arduous task of working off several bubbles here in the US, any little piece can be localized on and claimed as a peak oil effect. The recent QE for example, leads straight to a lower standard of living for some as their paychecks do not keep up with the price inflation of imported goods or commodities, effectively deflating the value of the excessive debt. And a problem for those companies which cannot raise prices, they get hit in the margin. Some will go out of business. And none of this is a surprise, or a consequence of peak oil.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomersUnite', 'A')nd a problem for those companies which cannot raise prices, they get hit in the margin. Some will go out of business. And none of this is a surprise, or a consequence of peak oil.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
That's what I don't understand about the Republicans.. they don't seem to realize that if you just tell half the country to go get lost and eat cake no-soup-for-you, then a LOT of small businesses also go under. And then more banks, and on up the foodchain in a massive deflationary cascade.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Xenophobe', '
')After Bens announcement this week, it doesn't seem that deflationary cycles are the concern?