[Aaron]

But OPEC is exploiting their poor oil.

OPEC oil is forced to wear veils in public, can't vote, and is regularly burned at the stake.

It is the duty of the Coalition of the Greedy to liberate this oil from the evil deprivations of OPEC.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')HEN in the course of hydrocaron events,
it becomes necessary for sweet crude to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of hydrocarbon requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all hydrocarbons are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Discovery, Extraction and the Production of Energy

[Liamj]

so should we all chip in & get Aaron a rest cure, or a deprogrammer, something, anything!

[2007]

in retro-perspec-something, can we also sue the Texas Railroad Commission for being an evil cartell? - pumping up gas prices to... ehh, about... 75 cent.

[2007]

in retro-perspec-something, can we also sue the Texas Railroad Commission for being an evil cartell? - pumping up gas prices to... ehh, about... 75 cent.

[Yavicleus]

Wow....what another great and insightful idea from the Democrats!

"Hey, oil prices are up! It must be due to those evil mega-corporations and those evil oil cartels! Let's create some legislation that enables us to sue them! We'll make lots of money off of trial fees from this one boys..."

Thanks guys. Really. Wish you were doing more for us like forcing car companies to raise the MPG average of their vehicles or getting us wind and solar plants built. But I sure sleep better knowing that you're going to sue OPEC and those evil corporations!

[DomusAlbion]

Leahy is the Democrat Senator from Vermont that VP Cheney famously told "Fuck Off" to not long ago. He's a real boob and a sniveling back stabber but I never thought he was this stupid. This may just be a purely political move and not serious legislation.

Oh, and as an addendum let me add: "Fuck Off, Leahy"

[Sys1]

http://www.energybulletin.net/5895.html Beyond peak oil in itself, interesting to note that everything mankind is doing contribute to self destruction.

[HellMan]

Yup. That about sums it all up right there.

[dinopello]

Has anyone listened to these talks ?

http://www.energybulletin.net/7726.html

I saw them this morning but didn't have time to listen and now there are bandwidth problems . Anyone know of an alternate site ?

[BabyPeanut]

They should have used Coral.

http://www.coralcdn.org/

[Sgs-Cruz]

This doesn't have anything to do with the book of the same name, does it?

Btw for anyone thinking of buying that book, it's not really worth it. It's the same type of book as Rifkin's The Hydrogen Economy. A lot of talk of promise and potential, while casually tossing off one-liners like a shift of this magnitude will cause extreme hardship and social dislocation in which it appears the authors are not even reading the sentences they just wrote.

[malcomatic_51]

Energy Bulletin: Peak Oil, a catastrophist cult?
Is Peak Oil just a catastrophist cult? According to one Dr Valclav Smil, yes it is. We're all wrong and everything will be all right because the market mechanism will save us. A new paper is presented in summary at our sister site: http://www.energybulletin.net/11888.html

I don't know where you can get an original free download, but the main content is summarised at EnergyBulletin. I expect PO will increasingly be up against this kind of thing even as prices rocket and the cornucopians bleat about the New Jerusalem of endless cheap renewable energy just around the corner.

[Hegel]

Dr. Smil's publications are for the birds.

[Cynus]

Oddly enough, for someone setting out to debunk PO, I didn't notice any discussion of depletion rates, discovery trends, demand inelasticity, etc. in Smil's article. That's a pretty shabby bit of debunking. PO.com should sell long black hooded robes with "Apocalyptic cult memebr" written on the back in bright yellow letters as a fund raiser.

[Antimatter]

You can read Smil's article and others here:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~vsmil/publications_pdf.html

[peaknik]

Smil is very critic of "energy seers", but he is no cornucopian. In "Energy at the crossroads" he also dismisses predictions of an early end of the oil era, but he pushes for abandoning CO2 emitting fuels and makes a quite passionate plea for reduction in overall energy consumption.

Somehow, Smil seems to have his mind split in two, he understands very well energy, thermodynamics, etc, but he is also an optimist about adaptation, and his critique of an early peak oil is, as other user said before, quite weak.

Nonetheless, I recommend his books and writings, although he seems to have a personal matter with Campbell, Simmons, et al...

[WebHubbleTelescope]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Antimatter', 'Y')ou can read Smil's article and others here:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~vsmil/publications_pdf.html

[malcomatic_51]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WebHubbleTelescope', '
')Anyone that writes even one article for http://TechCentralStation.com approaches zero credibility,

[rsch20]

when do I get my sneakers?

[MicroHydro]

Certainly PO has the same sort of psychological appeal as the rapture and other models of TEOTWAWKI in our lifetimes that might save us from the horrors of dealing with the mundane medical and economic problems of old age.

Big differences. PO is heterodox. There are many prophets, but no cult leaders. Nobody has asked me to give up all my money and move to the cult compound in South America. Nobody is pouring kool aid. If someone decides to stop following PO, they aren't kidnapped and dragged back to the compound.