[TheDude]

Think this might be a good time/place to link to these Robert Rapier articles:

High Gasoline Prices, Part 1: Immediate Causes

High Gasoline Prices, Part 2: Long-Term Factors

[h20]

Hey TheDude, those articles don't even mention peak oil, falling/plateauing supply or rising Chinese demand, so they are pretty fucking useless.

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('h20', 'T')alking about Danny "Baghdad Bob" Yergin, I hear he's starting to get worried:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FT.com', '�')��Until recently, there has been less concern about oil in the $90s than there was when it was $60 or $70. But it is obvious that oil at $100 is going to have much more impact than oil at $70,” said Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('h20', 'H')ey TheDude, those articles don't even mention peak oil, falling/plateauing supply or rising Chinese demand, so they are pretty fucking useless.

[whereagles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DantesPeak', 'I') have increasingly been getting that unpleasant gut feeling that events are about to overwhelm even most of us here who think they can see what’s coming.

[whereagles]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'H')ow can unlimited cheap energy be possible in a world of finite resources, unless there is something supernatural about it? Sounds silly, but isn't this fantasy one of the core assumptions on which the modern world is based?

[dohboi]

When the MSM truly embrace PO, that will be the very surest sign that we are really past any remote hope of doing anything effective about it.

(This is a corolary to the principle that when Newsweek declares that a bull market is hear to stay, it is time to get out of the market.)