[tokyo_to_motueka]

counterpunch
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')size=134]The Virtues of Gas Guzzling:
Why I Don't Believe in "Peak Oil"[/size]

Since I don't believe in "peak oil" (the notion that world production is peaking and will soon slide, plunging the world into economic chaos) and regard oil "shortages" as contrivances by the oil companies and allied brokers and middlemen to run up the price, I fill my aging fleet of 50s and 60s era Chryslers with a light heart, although for longer trips these days I fill an 82 Mercedes 240D with diesel. True, diesel these days costs more than high-octane gasoline but the Mercedes gets 35 miles to the gallon, whereas the 59 Imperial ragtop and the 62 Belevedere wagon get around 18 mpg, which is still way ahead of the SUVs.

[EnemyCombatant]

Cut him some slack. Just because he may be wrong on one topic, doesn't make him an imbecile.

Instead, perhaps write to him and try to give him some evidence of another viewpoint.

[retiredguy]

Ask him for the peer-reviewed paper that supports this majical abiotic process. What's this "belief" stuff regarding Peak Oil? It ain't a religion. Doesn't anyone understand the scientific method anymore?

I believe the earth's core is composed of chewy caramel nuggat. So proof me wrong.

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

Wow, haven't heard that one before.

A belief in abiotic oil is no different to a belief that planting bank notes in the ground will grow you money trees.

After joining PO.com, nothing now suprises me about how deep into denial people will go.

[killJOY]

So Cockburn is a creationist, too.

Fuck him.

[JohnLudi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')I don't believe in any effective role of man-made CO2 in global warming, a natural cyclical trend. I think the mad rush to throw money at the pharmaceutical companies for an avian flu vaccine is ridiculous. And increasingly, I don't believe we're about to run out of oil.

[Doly]

That article deserves to be added to the list of "Famous last words".

[tokyo_to_motueka]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnemyCombatant', 'C')ut him some slack. Just because he may be wrong on one topic, doesn't make him an imbecile.

Instead, perhaps write to him and try to give him some evidence of another viewpoint.

[aahala]

Obviously Alex is a confused thinker.

A belief in PO does not require the belief the peak is imminent or that the
consequences will necessarily result in a complete collapse. It is only
indirectly connected to a belief in global warning, and no connection I can
see in avian flu or the Easter bunny.

[tokyo_to_motueka]

for some inexplicable reason, he's bought into this "abiotic" fantasy.

gee, maybe he's just pulling our leg. i hope.

[MicroHydro]

Political types have a fundamental flaw. They fail to understand that an objective physical reality exists outside their BS. Even those who are well read have no understanding of the scientific method and no ability to think critically about scientific issues. When the autopsy of the anglo-american empire is written, the dominance of public discourse by persons with no scientific training will be noted as one of the causes of death.

[fossilnut2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MicroHydro', 'P')olitical types have a fundamental flaw. They fail to understand that an objective physical reality exists outside their BS. Even those who are well read have no understanding of the scientific method and no ability to think critically about scientific issues....

[rogerhb]

We can't all be experts in everything and just like compassion fatigue I think you can get conspiracy fatigue!

Even though I don't believe in God doesn't mean I don't think Mother Terresa did wonderful work for the poor.

[JB2]

Pretty disappointing comment from Mr. C, but I question how serious that comment is: Might as well just "choose" to believe in abiotic oil because it's more "optimistic"? Whatever you say Alex.

On the other hand, Counterpunch posted an article by Matthew Simmons's last spring.

[Free]

I am really disappointed as well, I held counterpunch in high regard, Alexander Burncock lost pretty much all respect for me now...

Why is it that alledgedly smart people can be so wrong? Just shows you how much ideology can make you blind, if you see everywhere the big black boogey man... Let this be a lesson for us to stay sceptics and use Ockhams razor excessively....

[fossil_fuel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')I hang my hat on the views of Dr.Thomas Gold (founding director of Cornell University Center for Radiophysics) as outlined in his 1999 book, The Deep Hot Biosphere.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossil_fuel', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')I hang my hat on the views of Dr.Thomas Gold (founding director of Cornell University Center for Radiophysics) as outlined in his 1999 book, The Deep Hot Biosphere.

[mgibbons19]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnLudi', '
')Everything is beautiful...think I'll buy a Hummer and buy some property on the Gulf Coast!

[mgibbons19]

now when I hear hummer on an oil forum, i don't think of


I think of

[fossil_fuel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '.')..and look how Dr Gold ended up.