[Aaron]

Way back in good ole 2004, America was enchanted with Adam Sandler's 50 first dates, Usher sold more albums that anybody else, & peak oil began it's journey to global attention.

And so, for your edification, here's the MASSIVE www.fark.com thread that started it all...

Funny ole world when it's Fark that launches the popular peak oil movement.

Thanks Drew...

Your dog wants oil.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comment ... ink=828707

[TITAN]

Reading that thread makes me want dieoff oh so badly...

[Daculling]

Fark is how I got here. Thanks alot Fark....

[AirlinePilot]

When Crude prices started climbing above 45 or so I got interested in why. I really am an airline pilot (contrary to what a few folks on here think ) and it WILL affect my carreer so I got educated. I have learned much about oil exploration and production along with what moves the markets.

Thats how I came to know about the wonderful theory of peak oil.

[NEOPO]

Always wanted to buy the farm and build a homestead and while contemplating various concepts the earthship concept had its way with us.

While searching through alt building pages we stumbled across an intentional community link which led us to a hippy forum where some godamn hippy said something like "with the coming of peak oil we might want to get busy building"...........and thus the oddysey began.....
Strange days and even stranger ways.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', '
')
Thats how I came to know about the wonderful theory of peak oil.

[Tanada]

Actually I found this site while researching an article I wrote for the Grantville Gazzette Volume 4. After I got the article all polliched up and accepted I came back and actually dug through the mountain of straw to find those few jewel encrusted needles. Been here on and off every since Bought and read Twilight in the Desert and The View From Hubberts Peak because of this site.

Its not so much a case of learning for me, most of this stuff I 'learned' back in 1982, then when prices crashed in 1986 and stayed down I went back to sleep as if it were all just a bad dream.

[Aaron]

Yeah, but it was this Fark thread linked to Savinars website which created the first wave of popular attention.

Made Matt Savinar a Peak Oil Somebody

[caliginousface]

A week or two before beginning at an Aeronautical university, I googled "the end of oil" and LATOC came up.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'Y')eah, but it was this Fark thread linked to Savinars website which created the first wave of popular attention.

Made Matt Savinar a Peak Oil Somebody

[cynicalheretic]

I googled oil supplies about two 1/2 years ago and came across a site discussing peak oil. I was interested then did a search for Peak Oil forum and here I am

[Daculling]

I can still find the thread that changed many of my assumptions about the future. Thanks andhow... who ever the hell you are.


Fark.com


2005-03-16 04:06:09 PM andhow


"While some folks desperately cling to the belief that oil is a renewable resource, others hold on to the equally delusional idea that tapping the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve will solve, or at least delay, this crisis. While drilling for oil in ANWR will certainly make a lot of money for the companies doing the drilling, it won't do much to help the overall situation for three reasons:

1. According of the Department of Energy, drilling in ANWR will only
lower oil prices by less than fifty cents;

2. ANWR contains 10 billion barrels of oil - or about the amount the US
consumes in a little more than a year.

3. As with all oil projects, ANWR will take about 10 years to come
online. Once it does, its production will peak at 875,000 barrels per
day - but not till the year 2025. By then the US is projected to need
a whopping 35 million barrels per day while the world is projected to
need 120 million barrels per day."

From www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

www.peakoil.com

..scary stuff.

[128shot]

I wanted to see what was up with the rising gas prices. I wouldn't take "the oil companies/OPEC is responsible for this" mindset. I want a more believable answer.



I still don't believe peak oil is the end of civilization though.....

[Armageddon]

I heard michael rupport on the jeff rense show. I seldom listen to the live shows, and I saw an archive that said, " from the wilderness". I was thinking, what the hell is that ? So I listened to michael speak. And he made so much sense. Then I learned how 911 and PO are directly related, and started researching how 911 was an inside job. Crossing the Rubicon , twighlight in the desert and the party's over were enough for me. It's been a fun ride these past 2 years.

[Bas]

Matt Savinar got me really interested after I read the abstract from his book though I find much of what he wrote sensationalist and sometimes unfounded (more so over time). None the less, the subject has never ceased to interest me since the summer of 2004.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'W')ay back in good ole 2004, America was enchanted with Adam Sandler's 50 first dates, Usher sold more albums that anybody else, & peak oil began it's journey to global attention.

And so, for your edification, here's the MASSIVE www.fark.com thread that started it all...

Funny ole world when it's Fark that launches the popular peak oil movement.

Thanks Drew...

Your dog wants oil.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comment ... ink=828707

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', 'R')eading that thread makes me want dieoff oh so badly...

[Carlhole]

I thought it was Deffeyes book, 'Hubbert's Peak', in 1999 along with the Scientific american article of that year by Campbell and LaHerrere called 'The end of Cheap Oil' that set it off.

Of course, the War in Iraq was what really ignited the broader awareness - that and whole series of other books on the subject that came out in 2003 - 2005.

I read Hubbert's Peak when it first hit the shelves.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I') thought it was Deffeyes book, 'Hubbert's Peak', in 1999 along with the Scientific american article of that year by Campbell and LaHerrere called 'The end of Cheap Oil' that set it off.

Of course, the War in Iraq was what really ignited the broader awareness - that and whole series of other books on the subject that came out in 2003 - 2005.

I read Hubbert's Peak when it first hit the shelves.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('128shot', 'I') wanted to see what was up with the rising gas prices. I wouldn't take "the oil companies/OPEC is responsible for this" mindset. I want a more believable answer.



I still don't believe peak oil is the end of civilization though.....