[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seenmostofit', '
')Plant started the diversion, not me.

[rangerone314]

Had all the stops been pulled in 2005 (as in spare production), would not oil production have been higher?

If a baseball player plays 162 games in 2012 and gets 35 homers and played in 2005 and hit 35 homes but only played 150 games, which year is really peak homers?

[seenmostofit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seenmostofit', '
')Plant started the diversion, not me.

[Plantagenet]

Glad you are enjoying your VOLT. Good prep for peak oil.

How long have you had it? Does your battery still charge to capacity, or are you seeing any decay in your battery system?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seenmostofit', '
')
Who said we were discussing peak oil?

[dohboi]

smoi, I agree with the others that your verbiage has drifted into the incoherent. Take a breath, think through what you want to say, and present it coherently. It is important and valuable to have a broad range of positions on these forums, but not very helpful if some are articulated in a scattered or incoherent manner.

[seenmostofit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')How long have you had it? Does your battery still charge to capacity, or are you seeing any decay in your battery system?

[seahorse3]

STF, I don't follow every post and missed where you bought an EV, the type etc. So, sorry for the thread drift, but I would like some info on it and your experience. If you would rather send it in a PM to avoid clogging the drain on information here, please feel free.

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seahorse3', 'S')TF, I don't follow every post and missed where you bought an EV

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seahorse3', 'S')TF, I don't follow every post and missed where you bought an EV

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t isn't the poor countries of the world which will solve peak oil, it is the Americas and Europes and Japans, all trying out different modes of transport and whatnot, building better batteries, building windfarms onshore and off, turning the natural gas cliff into the natural gas surplus, continuing to find new oil in old oil fields, new oil in new oil fields, each company and country looking for the best business model or plan.

[dolanbaker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t isn't the poor countries of the world which will solve peak oil, it is the Americas and Europes and Japans, all trying out different modes of transport and whatnot, building better batteries, building windfarms onshore and off, turning the natural gas cliff into the natural gas surplus, continuing to find new oil in old oil fields, new oil in new oil fields, each company and country looking for the best business model or plan.

[seenmostofit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')
That sounds a lot like trying to eke out the current paradigm using the hard to get stuff. At some point it will dramatically affect our economic system irreversibly.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')elcome to the new world. I recommend a career in energy for any up and comers because certainly it will be appreciated more in the future than it has been in the past.

[seenmostofit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')elcome to the new world. I recommend a career in energy for any up and comers because certainly it will be appreciated more in the future than it has been in the past.

[evilgenius]

I think the dance of fuel prices and the strength of the US economy is very interesting. I too have noticed that as soon as gas prices respond to any improvement in the economy by rising, the economy slows. I suppose this is the new normal in the face of a financial system where the ability to transfer inflationary pressure into the phantasmagorical realm of derivatives has largely become defunct as far as its efficacy to provide relief for the broad spectrum. Dollar hegemony spreads the pain around the world, and punishes the hanger ons moreso than any others involved in the oil as a basis for an economy game. The same failure of the secondary (derivative) economy has also had adverse effects upon the ability of the Government Actors to inflate anything in terms of the economy. While it is true that there has been de facto inflation for anybody who now has to live on either a lower wage or some kind of benefits, there hasn't really been much inflation across the broad spectrum. That is the rich have not experienced inflation while the poor have! Sadly, rentier conditions practically guarantee that economic decision making will not take place on the part of the poor. What the rich need in terms of decision making is what will hold. What the rich need leads us to where we are now.

As the satellite (non-Middle East/OPEC) fields begin to decrease output the interest of the world (the rich) will necessarily fall on those states with huge reserves. I would argue they have been falling on the Arab world for some time. What is now coming to a head in Syria is not happening in a vacuum. It is happening in the context described above. Worse than Syria is what the battle there portends, a great strife between the Shia and Sunni Muslims. More dangerous for the interests of the world along these lines is what could happen in Iraq, given its split between those involved. Are the rich so committed to the Sunni side as to commit to it during a regional war? Are they as equally committed to Israel? For that matter, does Israel realize that at least some of the pressure mounting on them to attack Iran is coming from this tense field of interests, so that the Sunnis do not have to act directly, but can reap the benefits of Israel's actions? Further still, how painful will it be for the West to sit still and watch minority interests in places like Saudi Arabia get the stuffing knocked out of them? Will it cause any greater reaction than what has happened in the wake of the problems in Bahrain?