[Tanada]

Like Pops said, if you want good peak oil journalism then act like a Journalist and write something. Back in the 1990's I was a member of the space nuts are US community. We quickly discovered the only way to get anything written about the potential of NEO was to write it ourselves. Several of my back then online friends became quite adroit at writing articles that were picked up as Op-ed pieces and published in major markets. CATS, SSTO, SSTA, TSTO we knew we were leading the edge of the next technology. Yet here I sit 20 full years later and we are just now starting to see some real progress in CATS and TSTO, the rest have at least for now fallen by the wayside.

In the end it didn't matter much, we got a couple of programs extended a year to 18 months but we never got enough inertia in the public to cause a lasting change. I learned back then the hard way, 95% of people just don't care unless they can see a direct effect in their personal life within a year. Of the remaining 5% you will discover only a fifth agree with your ultimate goal, another fifth might agree with your immediate goal, but the remaining three fifths have goals divergent or a opposed to your goal. It was the same way when I was a hard core environmentalist back in the 1980's but I was young enough back then to think all I had to do was be more convincing.

[ROCKMAN]

Buddy – Obviously we don’t have to narrow it down to PO. Each of us has a strong knowledge base about something and cringes when we see some erroneous if not downright stupid MSM reports. As implied some reporters are just lazy and in a hurry to get a story out so they just mimic what other inept reporters print.

And I suspect many reporters better understand the situation but write down to a level they feel J6P can handle. Which, from a business standpoint, is probably valid. I could write a 10,000 word report going over all the detailed pros and cons of frac’ng in PA. And send it to every news outlet in the state. But would it get published word for word? Not likely…each reporter would pull out what supported the emphasis they wanted to sell.

BTW: I did just that about a year ago. Also put out shorter messages on their websites. Responses: zero. I at least expected negative responses but didn't even get that. I think at this point most folks have well entrenched opinions on the subject and felt they didn’t need to hear any more about it. And the MSM understands that. Same thing goes for our energy situation and every other major issue out there. And I'll take another shot at our two party system. IMHO they encourage such dogmatic positions because it gives them cover for not seriously addressing many of our problems. We have been divided and they have conquered.

[Buddy_J]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'e')2 is right. There used to a sizable contingent of doomers posting here who thought collapse was imminent and were prepping various bunkers, cabins, boats, vans, etc. for their bugout holes.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t doesn't mean that day won't come, but it DOES say that the predictive track-record of "peak oil journalism" from doomer sources hasn't been that accurate.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', ' ')But make no mistake, the preppers haven't gone away, they've just moved on to other boards where they don't have to put up with the BS from the kibitzers here.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buddy_J', 'A')s we have currently have found one in just the past 3 years, it does beg the question, can their future projections for economic activity hold true as long as this size of finding rate continues?

[Buddy_J]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buddy_J', 'A')s we have currently have found one in just the past 3 years, it does beg the question, can their future projections for economic activity hold true as long as this size of finding rate continues?

[radon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'o')ut on a frigid Siberian tundra lake. .

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'L')ike Pops said, if you want good peak oil journalism then act like a Journalist and write something.