[yesplease]

Do you do anything on this forum besides troll Peter?

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', 'D')o you do anything on this forum besides troll Peter?

[JohnDenver]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')hought I'd bump this thread. Has Matt gotten much airtime on cable news lately? I'm wondering whether maybe he made one too many bad calls. Do you think he's done himself in as an a-lister?

[Revi]

Matt Simmons will be back on the business shows when oil goes back up. They love him. They can't understand what he's saying, but they love to have him on for some reason.

He believes we should get back to a village economy, and soon. I agree, but don't know how to make it happen.

We need to get people out of their cars and into neighborhoods and towns that don't require cars.

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', '
')We need to get people out of their cars and into neighborhoods and towns that don't require cars.

[yesplease]

One can start by posting something constructive instead of trolling Peter.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', 'I')'m going to post this thread and link the article for the purposes of revisiting it in 3-6 months.
Matt said on March 26: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29891917
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Matt Simmons', '&')quot;We are three, six, maybe nine months away from a price shock. We are not talking about three to five years away -- it will be much sooner," Simmons told Reuters in London.

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', '
')In short, another Matt Simmons prediction bites the dust!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonsense', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', '
')In short, another Matt Simmons prediction bites the dust!

[copious.abundance]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'F')or those new to this debate--Simmons has not been 'debunked' by anyone. Who are we to believe, an American investment banker or the Mullah? Saudis Princess with Rolls-Royces in a sea of poverty and corruption or a petroleum expert and US citizen?

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')immons made one simple prediction in his 'Twilight in the Desert," that the world's oil production we soon peak. He supported this with an easy-to-understand and basic contention, that the Saudi's lie about their reserves.

[copious.abundance]

The irony of you defending American investment bankers is beyond laughable. Perhaps you've forgotten this?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')his Robert Brusca is a real whiz. This is what he had to say about housing Feb. 25, 2008.
[...]
Jesus Christ Oily, don't you do any homework? It took me all of 30 seconds to denounce this charlatan.

[mos6507]

This whole 'circle the wagons' approach to defend any and all doomers (not just Matt, but Ruppert in the other thread) is the worst possible way to make these issues relevant to the masses. These people are not the Pope. They do not deserve our unconditional love and protection.

It's ditto-head-like blind loyalty and it's both unnecessary and counter-productive.

[mos6507]

Let's step back a moment and look at the greater problem of doomer figures making bad calls. Is Matt really the only one who has done this? How successfully have these bad calls just kind of been brushed under the rug or have deniers latched onto them?

Have we or have we not just suffered from a spate of denialist press from Lynch and so on?

Then let's realize just how high the stakes are for these public figures to stick their necks out again and again and build a warchest of bad calls for deniers to pull out whenever they want to bury bombshells like the IEA "peak in 10 years" one.

So I don't think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. If peak oil figures don't cross their t's and dot their i's, it will all be very effectively used against us. They have the potential to set back peak oil awareness further than if they just never stepped forward to begin with.