[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')o I see peak oil as more of a glass ceiling on the economy. Where we are now, looking in the rear view mirror in order to put a badge on peak oil as the cause of the crisis serves only propaganda purposes to artificially promote peak oil theory to those who are only concerned with economic collapse. It will be a more compelling case when oil puts a lid on any recovery attempts down the road.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The Oil Ceiling (link)
February 4, 2010

The expression “glass ceiling” is probably familiar to most of my readers. It refers to that invisible barrier of unwritten rules that prevents women and minorities from being promoted past a certain level. Being an energy wonk, I am interested in an analogous concept I’ll call the oil ceiling.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Bytesmiths @ TOD on March 25, 2009 (link)

What's happened is that the growth-based economy has bumped up against the glass ceiling of energy availability. This has caused a "bounce" off that glass ceiling, if you will, and at some point, $40-$50 oil will once again fuel growth, and we will come up and smack our heads on the glass ceiling again. Only the next time, it won't be at 85.5 million barrels a day; it may be at 83 mb/d (3% annual decline), or lower.

We'll see this cycle repeat: bumping up against energy constraint glass ceiling, followed by an energy-shock recession, followed by cheap(er) energy, followed by wildly optimistic growth, followed by bumping up against the glass ceiling again, only lower this time.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]There's the glass ceiling. How about the energy ceiling? (link)
February 22, 2009

An energy "peak oil" ceiling to prosperity. Instead of the glass ceiling, how about the gas ceiling as in gasoline.

It's like the glass ceiling that feminists talked about as an impediment to upward mobility.

[MD]

I think you need to try for another meme. That one doesn't work. Plus it's already taken. The whole idea of a meme is to come up with a new one that catches fire on its own.

The "glass ceiling" in this case is just analogy, and a poor one.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'I') think you need to try for another meme. That one doesn't work. Plus it's already taken. The whole idea of a meme is to come up with a new one that catches fire on its own.

[Novus]

Peak oil is NOT an Economic Glass Ceiling. Glass Ceiling implies that the ceiling can be broken. The economic ceiling created by peak oil is an absolute ceiling and it is moving coming down on us like an economic guillotine.

[bratticus]

I thought "glass ceiling" implies that it's not visible until you bump into it.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'I') thought "glass ceiling" implies that it's not visible until you bump into it.

[oxj]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'P')eak oil is NOT an Economic Glass Ceiling. Glass Ceiling implies that the ceiling can be broken. The economic ceiling created by peak oil is an absolute ceiling and it is moving coming down on us like an economic guillotine.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oxj', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'P')eak oil is NOT an Economic Glass Ceiling. Glass Ceiling implies that the ceiling can be broken. The economic ceiling created by peak oil is an absolute ceiling and it is moving coming down on us like an economic guillotine.

[Minor Heretic]

Ok, a clumsy analogy. I was trying to lead people into the concept of an oil price ceiling to economic growth via a familiar concept. Global oil supply IS more like a slowly descending spiked iron ceiling.

In my own defense I'll say that it is like a glass ceiling in that most people don't perceive it until they bang against it.