How did you find peakoil.com?

by **Aaron** » Wed 30 Mar 2005, 08:03:14

It's interesting to hear how people found their way here.

At this point, it's kind of like that movie, "The Beach", where a small community of people live in isolation on a remote and beautiful tropical beach. New members are those who were curious enough, and brave enough to take the plunge.

by **DamianB** » Wed 30 Mar 2005, 12:00:15

Among some of my friends there's a joke about finding out stuff on the net - 'Oh we'll have to look on 'insert appropriate phase' dot com which started when a feral cat was found under one couple's house in Austin. When asked how he knew how to deal with it, Mike answered "I looked it up on feralcat.com" and we all burst out laughing.

I came across PO five or six years ago when 2010-2012 seemed along way away and the only big site was dieoff. In the interim I'd ocassionally revisit dieoff and do a search but it wasn't until last autumn (probably prompted by kitco or policypete) that I typed in peakoil.com straight off and came here.

by **Daculling** » Tue 10 May 2005, 13:45:49

A link on Fark.com lead me to Matt's site and then here amount other places... Click, opps that sucks...

Fark.com

by **bruin** » Tue 10 May 2005, 14:02:47

I saw an interview on tv with Colin Campbell (I believe, or some other PO expert) in which he described PO. Naturally, I wanted to disprove the concept and believe there was oil coming out of our ears and ended up at peakoil.net through google. After reading through the newsletters and articles I found their link to this site. The forum is key because there is daily discussion on it. I still can't believe this thing isn't all over the news. When I watch/hear/read the networks blather on about some issue on end, I can't help but thinking what a big waste of time on their part. I believe ASPO has the right timeline and 2008 is when things will HTF. Although supplies are tight now, the market is very elastic and will push out the heavy blows a couple years.

Still haven't disproved it.

Now I'm making plans for it.

by **RickTaylor** » Tue 10 May 2005, 14:57:53

I first heard about it from my brother about a year or two ago. He's been worried about issues like global warming and mass extinction for a while.

However it didn't really emotionally hit me at that time. I'm not sure why; I guess I was concentrating on my own life, and I thought vaguely it was something that would happen down the road.

It was Kunstler's article in the Rolling Stones, "The Long Emergency," that woke me up. For some reason, it hit me that this was real, and that I would very likely witness it in my life time. That lead me to think about global warming and resource depletion, and I've been worrying about it and reading about it ever since. It's even gotten me to think about spiritual matters; I've been in touch with a spiritual community I left a couple of years ago.

It's funny that it was Kunstler's article that woke me up. He's not even my favorite author now. He's a journalist rather than a scientist, and I feel I have to take what he says with a grain of salt because of his biases (for example, he would hate suburbia regardless of whether there was peak oil or not). Now I'm listening to people like Dr. Goodstein, Dr. Smalley, and Richard Heinburg.

--Rick Taylor

by **Old_Hermit** » Mon 06 Jun 2005, 00:30:01

From doing a search on google about the New Fox movie "Oil Storm" That is on TV right now.

by **jmacdaddio** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 23:51:40

My sister sent me a link to the Kunstler article in Rolling Stone which got me started. I've also been a mix of a conservationist and a contrarian, and I've long believed that the fossil fuel party won't go on forever. It's only recently that I've seen the links between the US Government, GM, Exxon, Wal-Mart, the housing bubble, Fannie Mae, Bush military adventures, and dwindling fossil fuel resources.

I was in a bar in Hoboken with my friend and I saw a promo for Oil Storm (ironic is that it was just after the NASCAR All-Star race, will car racing be as prevalent in the future?). I googled Oil Storm that night, and I found peakoil.com. Since then I've enlisted both of my sisters, an old roommate, and an uncle.

by **agni** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 00:17:17

I first got acquainted with peak oil during a lecture by a prominent physicist whose name escapes me. The lecture was more than about peak oil, in fact peak oil was only a small part, it was mainly about exponential growth and its inherent unsustainability. This was more than a year back and I forgot all about it, then I saw the movie 'The end of suburbia' with a bunch of friends, and then I did some research on my own and landed up here. I lurked for a while and then it seemed that the population of doomers is far higher than it should be so I decided to counterbalance things by joining in.

-A

by **Red_Emma** » Fri 17 Jun 2005, 19:57:47

It was from a google.

by **barjan** » Sat 31 Dec 2005, 12:10:14

I just read Mike Whitney's op-ed piece "Doomsday for the Greenback", which quotes from William R. Clark's book, "Petrodollar Warfare; Dollars, Euros and the upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse” - and googled that author's name.

by **Comp_Lex** » Sat 31 Dec 2005, 13:18:26

LATOC and Google

by **Terran** » Tue 03 Jan 2006, 23:32:16

Lifeaftertheoilcrash.net Matt's site. Lucky me I did get a chance to meet Matt Savinar a year ago.

by **aldente** » Wed 04 Jan 2006, 10:32:10

Listened to a show on the Pacifica Radio station in LA two years ago where listeners called in. Forgot what the show was about, but out of context one listener called, stating that the larger picture could all be understood by PeakOil, a term that I have not heard up to then. At home I did a Google search and found PeakOil.net. At some point I found the forum on PeakOil.com and got hooked, since I figured that there were others who grasped the underlaying magnitude of the issue.

It is surprising though how small the crowd stays. At any given point, check who's online and it is always a number of maybe 20 members, 40 or 50 guest and that's about it, just scroll down to the bottom of the page:

http://www.peakoil.com/modules.php?name=Forums

by **The_Virginian** » Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:20:14

ASPO.

My intro to "peak oil" came in University, some years back (1999), when a proffesor stated we are runnining out of oil, finaly...no matter what i countered she said "it won't be enough".... kind of sparked my intrest, but not enough to look for the concept I did not yet know existed.

Ignorance can really be so bliss...

by **jsb1969** » Thu 09 Mar 2006, 04:25:02

Exit Mundi rocks, pardon me.

http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

by **aldente** » Sun 12 Mar 2006, 02:11:10

jsb, you might as well might make fun of your grandmother. The site you quote is a 'cul de sac' per definition and indicates a lack of solid reasoning from your side in the first place.

by **jsb1969** » Sun 12 Mar 2006, 02:56:13

albente, don't get too busy counting the snowflakes, and have a drink on me.

by **ChoKyOTO** » Thu 23 Mar 2006, 00:48:35

*drips*

by **aldente** » Thu 23 Mar 2006, 02:23:51

ChoKyOTO, you sure qualify as one of the most unusual finds (it works both ways I guess) and JSB, correct I was consuming a bottle of wine when posting the tatoo pic (no offense). The site you quote is actually quite cool, found new material for my Doomsday Device thread.

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