[GregEllis]

Loki,
I'm well aware of its strangling level pf PC. It nauseates me, but I'm thinking 20, 30 and 40 years down the road. That liberal fad will disappear when the shyte hits the fan, but the rest will remain. And what is the rest?

-Largest body of fresh water in the world alongside Siberia

-Water tables outside the urban and intensive agricultural areas that aren't depleted like in America

-Some of the largest stands of old-growth left in the world; if natural gas, coal and nuclear run out or there is a crisis, what do you think people will use for cooking and heating? Human dung?

-Far enough north that the malaria and other mosquito-born diseases moving from Cent Am to North America won't ravage the population in increasingly-mild winters

-A population 1/10th the size of America's

-despite-

-Being geographically larger than America

-Universal health care, which despite the propaganda of corporatists is doing just fine thank you (and they are streamlining to reduce wait times for common surgeries, so take that)

-which means-

-I and my family don't have to suffer unnecessarily with no or poor coverage like in America (whether health care as we know it disappears, I dunno, but until then, single-payer is working just fine in Canada)

There are others. Of course, Americans could just up and move north and take whatever they wanted with a population of 300 million, but little old me can't counter that, other than by moving further north (which is warming!)

So, yea, I hate those damned identity politics Liberals and NDP, but I hate the corporatist big-oil Conservatives just as much. I'm just going to do my thing, learn my skills and see what we see.

That said, I'm a died-in-the-wool American who loves his country and his country's heritage (up to a certain era). I get teary eyed listening to writings of the founding fathers, I have biographies of Washington and Lincoln and read on the founding principles of the American Revolution, etc. etc.

BUT, I cannot in good conscience expose my children (who are also American...and Japanese....and soon to be Canadian) to the very real and probable dangers that will behalf my fellow Americans and the family I have down there. I decided to immigrate to Canada more for their futures and those of my grandchildren than out of personal taste. I don't like running from a fight, and there's a fight of the century down South that will decide how much pain Americans will suffer in the near future. I hate to miss it, but being a father now, my prime obligation is to wife and kids.

[Loki]

There may be some slight advantages to Canada, the main one being a low population density (but it should also be noted that a large portion of the country is basically uninhabitable, so raw density figures shouldn't be taken at face value---plus the gov't is doing everything they can to transfer the excess populace of Chindia and Europe over to Canada). The health care system may be a bonus, though I'm not convinced it's as wonderful as American liberals like to think. I lived there for a year and can't say as I was blown away---matter of fact, I moved back to the US at the first opportunity. I have the option of emigrating there if I want, but I don't. Not my cup of tea. Best thing I can say about Canada is they have good cable TV (best of US, UK, and Canadian shows). And the people are generally friendly, in a superficial Midwest kind of way.

But as I said, good luck with your plans. Whatever floats your boat. There are plenty of Canucks here who will point out every little flaw of the US while blindly singing the glories of Oh Canada.....

[carcara]

I expressed my consern about future and global warming to my very good friend. He told me to read about PO and so I did. It's been a year now and I'm still collecting more info to get prepared mentally. This site I found throught google (i guess) while searching new data about PO.
People who are already conserned about the way things are going in this world are easier to get to know about PO. Still most of the eyes and eyes out there are sealed from the horrible facts.

[nihit]

I was specifically searching for some forum realted to oil and gas on google and luckly i landed here...

Its a great site and forum... would like to congratulate the Admin for creating such thing.

[Fredrik]

Like so many others, I found this site with Google. The discussion forums seemed to be lively and visited by people who had done in-depth research into the subject, so I decided to register and stick around.

[xarkz]

i was reading a discussion about PO and there was a link to po.com.

[bshirt]

My brother turned me on to this site.

Thank you Doc!

[UFCjunkie]

I found this board thru google...searching for info about PO, and I found the right place.

[sevenrd]

Found this board through a Google search.

I'm a PO newbie. I was completely unaware of PO until 3 days ago when I watched "A Crude Awakening". After viewing, I began scouring the internet in a vain attempt to disprove the documentary. 3 days of pouring through everything I could find regarding PO has had the complete opposite result and removed my blinders further.

In the past 3 days I've at times wished I had my ignorance back.

This is gonna suck.

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GregEllis', 'M')y name is Greg Ellis. I'm an American who has lived in Japan for nine years, and seeing the political, economic and environmental future of America as being dim and dangerous and not wanting to continue living in Japan

[Blaze5]

I found Peakoil.com threw an artical on Peak Oil that quoted this site. I do not remember the article but went to Peakoil.com and added my name to the e-mail reception so here I am:)

[Revi]

I lurked on peak oil for a few years, then joined up. I can't remember how I found it, but I think I found the news first, then the forums.

[founder]

Just by type in

peakoil.com

[fuish]

Found Peak Oil through Google, but was searching for a while, found Ran Prieur's site which "Peaked" my interest... I know bad joke...

[DisconnectedFromRoots]

I got informed about peak oil only last spring but have been educating myself about it ever since. This site seems to have the best message board regarding the issue so that's what brought me here. Googling basically.

So hi everyone.

[DrBang]

In 1992 while studying geology I was shown the graph of how much oil was discovered and when. It occurred to me that if most of the oil was discovered 30 years previously with very little since that there would be a problem a some point.

In 2003, while watching the US, British and us Australians go to war in Iraq, again I started to seriously question the mainstream political agenda like I had never done so before.

I did an internet search in 2003. I came across several articles. I came across this website and the Oil drum a year or so later. I read 3 books on he subject (the main one "The Party is Over") and absorbed everything I could find. I found this message board quite useful.

I eventually joined when I felt I had something useful to contribute. Six months after joining I started developing a response. About the same time I got started with putting that plan on the ground.

[synthetik]

Googling "karl denninger" and "racist" strangely enough.

I've known this site along with theoildrum.com were here for years, just never attempted to become active.

I spend most of my time on tickerforum.org and I've been actively trading PUT options on lenders since January 2007. Other than the redneck leanings of the owner of the blog, it's been a great source of information with many highly intelligent posters. I'm looking for a new home... why is there no discussion of finance here? maybe I just haven't seen the forum yet...

[drew]

Go to 'depletion economics' and then 'traders corner' There are a fair number of active traders there. You will be right at home.

Drew

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('synthetik', 'I')'ve known this site along with theoildrum.com were here for years, just never attempted to become active.

I spend most of my time on tickerforum.org...

[eastbay]

Welcome... also check the current events section for trends and oil-related news affecting supply. You will find a few members here offering very valuable info, insight, and commentary in this area. We have some jive nonsense too, but just blow past that and focus on the good stuff.

Much of what you'll read here you'll find to be very helpful if you're like a few of us trading in energy.