[ennui2]

I don't know who is responsible for sticking stuff on the homepage but it's the worst case of cherry-picking I've ever seen.

If you want to go looking for doom, you can always find it if you dig deep enough. When I go mining for news I mentally filter out your Zerohedges and other doom bloggers and just look for instances where it percolates into the MSM.

The refrain then is "The MSM doesn't cover doom!" The hell they don't! At least for environmental doom, there's a TON of it flooding through google news on a regular basis. ScienceDaily, National Geographic, Newsweek, you name it.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')hanks for sharing ennui. Doom. doomer. doom doomer. Got anything else to say? Nah.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', 'I') don't know who is responsible for sticking stuff on the homepage but it's the worst case of cherry-picking I've ever seen.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')hanks for sharing ennui. Doom. doomer. doom doomer. Got anything else to say? Nah.

[Cog]

I look at doom as an investment to make a profit on hard core doomers who see collapse right around the corner. The benefit is if collapse occurs I'm more prepared but if not I make a profit off other's paranoia.

After Sandy Hook the panic buying of everything gun related, ammo, parts, magazines, etc -were epic. Guys were making 200--300% profit. Actually, except for the fact that Hillary is a criminal who would sell out the country, she would be very good for gun profits.

[ROCKMAN]

Cog - She's got a real challenge to match the hundreds of $millions in weapon sales President Obama motivated. LOL.

[Lore]

Or, killing tens of thousands of people in a made up war.

[ennui2]

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'O')r, killing tens of thousands of people in a made up war.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 't')his is such a stupid thread, and that is why I don't bother joining this idiot thread. Anyone who believes in abiotic oil does not deserve to post at po.com

gadzooks Robin!

[Revi]

Here's Ron Patterson's latest post in Peak Oil Barrel. It shows some interesting things. They are still forecasting increases, but that's just a forecast. Look at the existing trend and see where it goes.

http://peakoilbarrel.com

[ROCKMAN]

Sure...no problamo. Now that China is only growing at 5%+ instead of over 10% nothing to worry about increased oil consumption of our finite reserves:

Executive Summary: Gasoline has taken over as the main driver of incremental oil products demand growth in China. This ties China’s crude oil appetite more tightly to consumer trends, as opposed to industrial growth. In the Chinese market, it takes approximately 19 passenger cars to equal the annual crude oil demand created by one heavy-duty diesel truck.

In 2015, 551 thousand new heavy trucks were sold in China, versus 21.2 million new passenger cars—a 38:1 ratio, meaning that passenger cars and their gasoline thirst are now decisively driving incremental oil demand growth in China. For the next three years, each million new passenger cars sold in China will likely create approximately 10 kbd of incremental gasoline demand. I estimate each barrel of gasoline demand is worth approximately 3.8 barrels of crude throughput in a typical Chinese refinery.

The rising importance of gasoline demand and the decline in diesel use reflect a broad structural shift: crude oil is rapidly becoming a consumer good in China, not an industrial commodity as it was during the halcyon years of burgeoning diesel fuel demand.

[ROCKMAN]

And once again the important FACT about abiotic oil. Regardless of where and how oil it is generated we still only find it when it can physically exist and accumulates in traps. IOW there are not two separate efforts in the oil patch: one hunting abiotic oil and one hunting organic oil. We look for any oil accumulations regardless of its origins. PO is peak oil...not PAO or POO.

And if you don't understand PAO/POO keep it to yourself to avoid embarrassment. LOL

[hvacman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', 'A')nd once again the important FACT about abiotic oil. Regardless of where and how oil it is generated we still only find it when it can physically exist and accumulates in traps. IOW there are not two separate efforts in the oil patch: one hunting abiotic oil and one hunting organic oil. We look for any oil accumulations regardless of its origins. PO is peak oil...not PAO or POO.

And if you don't understand PAO/POO keep it to yourself to avoid embarrassment. LOL

[ROCKMAN]

Hman - Good analogy with one qualification: ground water can replenish in a time scale usefull for humans. Oil, be it abiotic or organic, won't. In none of the MILLIONS of wells drilled in the last hundred years has a single oil reservoir been shown to have accumulated any more recent then a few million years.

[Synapsid]

ROCKMAN,

About those auto sales in China: the growth is in SUVs. It seems that everyone wants one there.

Comforting to know we aren't the only country going down that road.

[hvacman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ROCKMAN', 'H')man - Good analogy with one qualification: ground water can replenish in a time scale usefull for humans. Oil, be it abiotic or organic, won't. In none of the MILLIONS of wells drilled in the last hundred years has a single oil reservoir been shown to have accumulated any more recent then a few million years.