[threadbear]

Ingenuity Gap, I confused some of Big Tex's comments with your own. Excuse me. As for your summation of my literary skills, thank you. As a consolation for your dreary performance, may I suggest, Thomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I')ngenuity Gap, I confused some of Big Tex's comments with your own. Excuse me. As for your summation of my literary skills, thank you. As a consolation for your dreary performance, may I suggest, Thomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I')ngenuity Gap, I confused some of Big Tex's comments with your own. Excuse me. As for your summation of my literary skills, thank you. As a consolation for your dreary performance, may I suggest, Thomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'T')he questions you asked me are rhetorical, but I think I answered them anyway.

[threadbear]

Ingenuity Gap, It was with great sadness and a mounting sense of mortification that I read your response. I did you and other posters a grave disservice by engaging in purple prose to portray the paucity of proper perspective that science promotes. Please, have pity.

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I')ngenuity Gap, It was with great sadness and a mounting sense of mortification that I read your response. I did you and other posters a grave disservice by engaging in purple prose to portray the paucity of proper perspective that science promotes. Please, have pity.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I')ngenuity Gap, It was with great sadness and a mounting sense of mortification that I read your response. I did you and other posters a grave disservice by engaging in purple prose to portray the paucity of proper perspective that science promotes. Please, have pity.

[KingM]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '
')It's not "humbleness", it's humility, btw. And humility is not only my style, but a way of life. I do, however, have the intellectual confidence to take on naive clods, who think they're brilliant.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '
')It's not "humbleness", it's humility, btw. And humility is not only my style, but a way of life. I do, however, have the intellectual confidence to take on naive clods, who think they're brilliant.

[Crimius]

Has Engdahl's article been refuted?

Engdahl's article

Thanks

[NeoPeasant]

Wheres that guy with the "not this shit again?" picture?

Just wonderin--
Why didn't the earth pop like a giant oily zit sometime in the billions of years before humans came along to relieve the pressure from all this spontaneous abiogenic oil production?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NeoPeasant', 'W')heres that guy with the "not this crap again?" picture?

Just wonderin--
Why didn't the earth pop like a giant oily zit sometime in the billions of years before humans came along to relieve the pressure from all this spontaneous abiogenic oil production?

[Windmills]

I don't think one should bother trying to refute an essay that can't even correctly characterize or define his opponents' arguments. His statements indicate that he doesn't clearly understand peak oil, so his entire argument becomes a straw man.

[killJOY]

mos actually gets the credit for showing me the pic.

Here it is. It's appropriate.

[TreeFarmer]

Well, let me regurgitate some calculations I once saw.

First my assumptions (of course you can make your own).

The earth is 4.5 billiion years old.
There is a total of 4.5 trillions barrels of oil (what has already been produced and what is left in the ground).

Now, 4.5 trillion divided by 4.5 billion means that the earth abiotically produced 1,000 barrels of oil per year.

Even if that crap is true it is useless. When you are using 82,000,000 barrels per day, a resupply of 1,000 per day is not even a drop.

TF

[Carlhole]

Engdahl: Two years recession, or ten years of hell?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('F William Engdahl', 'I')n this first segment of the interview, Paul Jay discusses how the global economic crisis will impact Europe with author and political economist William Engdahl. Engdahl says Italy is experiencing the worst economic crisis it has seen in 30 years, and the British economy is “falling off a cliff.” He says the European situation is “differentiated,” that “it’s a little bit different from what’s going on in North America, especially in the United States.” In Europe, he explains, “it is more an indirect knock-on effect of the United States financial meltdown.” He says the question now is whether the European Union is going to try and decouple its dependency on the US dollar and begin to form regional currency blocks like many nations around the world are starting to do.

Bio

F William Engdahl is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order." Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland respectively. He is based in Germany.

[Serial_Worrier]

If any country deserves to enter the gates of hell it's America. All it's war profiteering, genocide against the Palestinians, etc...

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'g')enocide against the Palestinians...

[EnergyUnlimited]

I is interesting that one of our archcornucopians, means Carlhole who believes that creative ingenuity will solve everything, that singularity is near etc, now is talking about 10 years of economic hell.
Doesn't sound very coherent for me...

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'I')f any country deserves to enter the gates of hell it's America. All it's war profiteering, genocide against the Palestinians, etc...