[Heading_for_the_hills]

I read the editorial below by George Will this morning in the local paper....This guy is a complete idiot!! Thought I would share as he is syndicated and his editorials run across the country....your thoughts on it? I am shocked by his stupidity and hatred for the "crazy" liberals. Being in the Tidewater area, home of CBN and Pat Robertson, I am sure Pat is going to discuss.....LOL

http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/ ... at=&page=1

[Heading_for_the_hills]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 1979 President Jimmy Carter, an early practitioner of the Oh, Woe! School of Planetary Analysis (today Al Gore is the dean of that school), said that oil wells were “drying up.” Not exactly

[emersonbiggins]

Kramer on Seinfeld summed this guy up quite well:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'K')ramer: " Hmm! Oh! Yeah. I'll tell you who is an attractive man; George Will."
Jerry: "Really!"
Kramer: "Yeah! He has clean looks, scrubbed and shampooed and...."
Elaine: "He's smart...."
Kramer: "No, no I don't find him all that bright."

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')rctic National Wildlife Refuge or offshore

[thuja]

This is the way conservatives like to pin anyone concerned with PO or GW- as doom-and-gloom pessimists. There...you're easily written off...now lets move on...to important ideas like cutting taxes and not letting gay people get married.

Its funny and sad. George Will has actually moved away from supporting the war and the neocon cabal to the point where he seems more "moderate" these days. But very few people can wrap their heads around the idea of world oil production reducing year after year after year. Certainly not the conservatives.

And the liberals are almost worse. They say "Oh we can solve the nation's problems with compact flourescents and ethanol!" But we can't. Sorry. We can and should move towards efficiencies and some smart alternatives but we will not be able to fully mitigate the impending crisis. We will only be able to adapt.

When I hear a politician or pundit start talking like that I'll start listening. For now they are all caught up in 20th century thinking...

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thuja', 'B')ut very few people can wrap their heads around the idea of world oil production reducing year after year after year. Certainly not the conservatives.

[vision-master]

"It's those oil companies gouging us"!

"We have 100 years of oil left"

"God wouldn't allow this to happen"

"Blank stare"

I give up.

FYI: Reg just went up to $2.79 gal.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thuja', 'T')his is the way conservatives like to pin anyone concerned with PO or GW- as doom-and-gloom pessimists.

[vision-master]

I get it all the time from these nut-cakes too.

[killJOY]

Rejoice, for it's clear:

George Will is not going to be prepared!


What are we peakers going to do with all that schadenfreude in a few years?

(Don't look puzzled. Admit it.)

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his decline was produced by an abrupt and substantial increase in the price of gasoline, which no politician, least of all the president, is proposing

[seahorse2]

Ole Georgy Porgy needs to read this "Liberal" report put out by the "liberal" Baker Institute back in April 2001 talking about the energy issues facing the US. The recommends all kinds of liberal things like uping vehicle mileage requirements and even negotiating with Iraq and Iran to diversify and develop world oil resources upon which we rely, otherwise, we run the risk of becoming another third world country - Baker's words, not mine.

Baker Report PDF

[pup55]

I thought of this while I was reading the Baker Institute report:

Another government action which was annoying at the time but really effective was lowering the national speed limit to 55mph, thus improving reducing fuel consumption on the highways by 10% overnight.

[TreebeardsUncle]

I read the article too, but as far as most people are concerned it still comes across as plausible. There is still a believe that OPEC can turn up the taps and oil will flow plentifully. The American "conservative" Repulican mindset is that "we can drill our way out." and the American "liberal" response is to jump up and down and shout "Biofuels." This will go on the for next 10 years.
You have plenty of time to take advantage of the situation and get prepared. I am going to buy more drillers. I already got some stock in BHI and Hemerich and Payne earlier this winter and plan on buying into Noble and/or TransOcean next winter after this summer's peak.

G

[cudabachi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thuja', 'T')his is the way conservatives like to pin anyone concerned with PO or GW- as doom-and-gloom pessimists.

[Terrapin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('thuja', 'T')his is the way conservatives like to pin anyone concerned with PO or GW- as doom-and-gloom pessimists.