[mcgowanjm]

PO has credibility issues?



Want to talk about BP now? Magically doubling world oil reserves
in 1985(Still not revised down to my knowledge).
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
') Before we leave that curve, though, I want to point out that a sudden jump of 300–400 billion barrels of oil in OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) reserves occurs in the late 1980s (see figure 3, left-hand graph, above). But there were no significant discoveries of oil in OPEC countries during that period. What happened instead is that OPEC changed its quota for how much each country could pump on the basis of what it claimed in reserves, and politicians discovered 400 billion barrels of oil without ever drilling a hole in the ground! This helps us to understand how undependable these numbers are for worldwide proven oil reserves.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '
')Most of you are much older

[AAA]

mos6507,

This is why people discredit PO. You cannot use common sense and most of the time you are totally illogical and irrational.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')
If you really think you're so much of a hero for doing what you do, enabling BAU, then you're much worse of an advocate for peakoil than the granola crowd you despise so much.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'd')avep attacks me because I want to have 2 wood stoves in my passive solar house. I have seen hundreds of passive solar house plans and I don’t recall seeing 1 plan that doesn’t include fireplaces or wood stoves. When a winter storm hangs around and you don’t see sunlight for 8 days good luck trying to stay warm.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ost of you are much older and don’t have to think about long-term planning. I am one of the few who are slowly changing their entire lives because I feel peak oil will be an issue.

[SFDukie]

Triple A
You hit the nail on the head. Type something here which challenges the orthodoxy in any manner (especially the orthodoxy as related to 9/11, moon landings, and other topics far from core relevance to peak oil) and all too often rather discussion of the assertions, one receives personal attacks and unrelated criticisms.

[AAA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')You attacked me, sneering that I mustn't know much about passive solar design. So I let you know otherwise. Deal with it.

[vtsnowedin]

I must confess to only reading the first and last pages of this dissertation as the sites being balky again and some of the pages won't display. But back to Shorts original point about improving the credibility of the site. Why should anyone care? Who profits if everything on the site becomes focused and believable? I suppose if the site becomes "The source " for oil doomers the advertisers will have a field day but do we the posters care about their fortunes? Peak oil will happen ,Or Not, with or without this site trumpeting its coming. At present it seems to be a much slower process then some have claimed it would be, but with the world population growing at its present rate I think enough shortages of various types will show up presently to get most peoples attention. In the meantime while we watch the government spend itself into bankruptcy I enjoy debating the eminent collapse of the worlds ice caps with the eco doomers. It is much more entertaining then contemplating what Iran will do once they get a working bomb and run short of drinking water.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')You attacked me, sneering that I mustn't know much about passive solar design. So I let you know otherwise. Deal with it.

[AAA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')And what have you genuinely accomplished in the last five years apart from hoarding wealth?

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')And what have you genuinely accomplished in the last five years apart from hoarding wealth?

[AAA]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')Well done. But, if you have your place bought outright and can grow your own food, why would you need to continue to have your current salary yield?

[AAA]

Here is an example of what I am talking about in a half-way decent thread about peak oil.

Your one and only pstarr....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', ' ')Shorty what motivates you to take this abuse? Money, sexual favors? personal sexual satisfaction, strange sexual appetites? Strange sado-masochistic rituals? Ear-hair pulling? Baby stoppers. Baby food jars. Baby nipple rings. Diapers? yeech!

What is in this for you anyway?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', 'T')his is why PO has credibility issues.

[b] Ludi attacks me because I want to have a family.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', 'S')ustainable living is different than frugal living or green living.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '
')I have talked to literally over 100 different people about peak oil.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '
')Vegetable Gardening for around 12 years
Organic gardening for 2 years
Seed Saving for 2 years
Growing fruit trees for 3 years
Composting for 3 years
Vermicomposting for 6 months
Raising fish for 2 years
Small & Big game hunting for 13 years
Fishing for more than 15 years
Skilled in butchering small & large game, foul, and fish

[Ludi]

<<<<< hijacking alert>>>>>>

I was thinking it might make more sense to build a smaller house and a guest house, so you don't need to heat so much space if people aren't using it. If you're going to have a passel of chillins, I guess you'll need that space, but won't it be crowded when the visitors come?

[Ludi]

This is the kind of comment that discredits po.com:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'M')ate, these maggots in capitalism ain't gonna change. Not now, not ever. We need another Stalin and a purging Revolution to remove these pus balls.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')his is the kind of comment that discredits po.com:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'M')ate, these maggots in capitalism ain't gonna change. Not now, not ever. We need another Stalin and a purging Revolution to remove these pus balls.