[Plantagenet]

The New York Times published two separate articles over the weekend disparaging the idea of peak oil.

New York Times bashes peak oil

Opposition to the idea of peak oil runs strong in the liberal mainstream media----after all, high oil prices are all caused by evil speculators, donja know.

[Xenophobe]

dup

[Xenophobe]

Pointing out how ridiculous peak oil is does not equate with declaring war. deleted reality trumps half a decade of personal Rapture scenarios and the continuous "kicking the can down the road" game which has been going on for half a decade now in congregations all across the web.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Xenophobe', 'P')ointing out how ridiculous peak oil is does not equate with declaring war.

[Xenophobe]

Stereotyping is so much easier than actually reading an article and deciding what parts of it are good, make sense, and what parts do not. Don't you think?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Xenophobe', 'P')ointing out how ridiculous peak oil is does not equate with declaring war. deleted reality trumps half a decade of personal Rapture scenarios and the continuous "kicking the can down the road" game which has been going on for half a decade now in congregations all across the web.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')I wonder how many people in Roman times predicted the end of the Roman Empire and the subsequent chaos?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Xenophobe', '
')The problem with always claiming that the wolf is at the door is that SOMETIME the wolf had better be at least spotted off on the horizon to maintain credibility.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')b]Opposition to the idea of peak oil runs strong in the liberal mainstream media----after all, high oil prices are all caused by evil speculators, donja know.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '[')b]Opposition to the idea of peak oil runs strong in the liberal mainstream media----after all, high oil prices are all caused by evil speculators, donja know.

[vtsnowedin]

Well at least the NY Times is now discussing the issue. That alone can be seen a progress. I think there numbers are a little fussy and incomplete. No mention of field declines in the North sea, Mexico or Alaska. They make re-drilling North Dakota sound like a large increase in world production without showing total world production or the actual size of the ND increase. There is as much left out here as is included.

[Xenophobe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')Did you somehow miss the last five years with global oil production peaking in late 2005-early 2006 and the oil price then running up from 2005 to 2008 to hit $148/bbl and then the concomitant global economic collapse of the last two years?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I've always found that odd, that most liberals seem to be peak oil deniers.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')They understand that Peak Oil, if true, spells the end of Liberal paradigm.

[mos6507]

BTW, Planty, I don't know why you are tarring the NY Times as a "liberal" rag when they are the ones who chose to give the infamous Michael Lynch a space to spew this famous piece of denialism.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'B')TW, Planty, I don't know why you are tarring the NY Times as a "liberal" rag when they are the ones who chose to give the infamous Michael Lynch a space to spew this famous piece of denialism.

[davep]

There appears to be a fairly large spread of political ideologies on this site, so I don't see how being of one particular political persuasion can be considered to be a break on accepting PO.

And journalists of many persuasions run pieces rubbishing PO. There really is no left-right rule for who would or wouldn't accept PO. You just seem to want to attack 'liberals' no matter how spurious the argument.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'T')here appears to be a fairly large spread of political ideologies on this site, so I don't see how being of one particular political persuasion can be considered to be a break on accepting PO.

And journalists of many persuasions run pieces rubbishing PO. There really is no left-right rule for who would or wouldn't accept PO. You just seem to want to attack 'liberals' no matter how spurious the argument.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')This topic simply reinforces the point that I made there that both LIBERAL media (the NY Times etc.) and CONSERVATIVE media (Fox News) do a poor job of covering peak oil