[cipi604]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686824,00.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not as if nobody predicted this. The true believers in what's called peak oil--a motley crew of survivalists, despisers of capitalism, a few billionaire investors and a lot of perfectly respectable geologists--have long cited the middle to end of this decade as a likely turning point.

[MacG]

Surprised nobody linked to this. Think you're losing it.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 24,00.html

It don't get much bigger than this.

[Grifter]

Oh for cying out loud

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not as if nobody predicted this. The true believers in what's called peak oil--a motley crew of survivalists, despisers of capitalism, a few billionaire investors and a lot of perfectly respectable geologists--have long cited the middle to end of this decade as a likely turning point.

[Bas]

Nah, we left this one for you to post ; )

But......Excellent article! this is the first time I've read stuff like this in the MSM:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not as if nobody predicted this. The true believers in what's called peak oil--a motley crew of survivalists, despisers of capitalism, a few billionaire investors and a lot of perfectly respectable geologists--have long cited the middle to end of this decade as a likely turning point.

[kpeavey]

already posted
Peak Possibilities

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[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kpeavey', 'a')lready posted
Peak Possibilities

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[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', 'O')h for cying out loud

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not as if nobody predicted this. The true believers in what's called peak oil--a motley crew of survivalists, despisers of capitalism, a few billionaire investors and a lot of perfectly respectable geologists--have long cited the middle to end of this decade as a likely turning point.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', 'O')h for cying out loud

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t's not as if nobody predicted this. The true believers in what's called peak oil--[b]a motley crew of survivalists,

[roccman]

One word...

Vindicated

Now maybe my kid's mom will invest in food and preps rather than tits and new trucks.

(I digress)

Won't happen - she will be like the rest...the government will fix this...

Oh well - so it goes...door burning down and "they" say ..."firetruck should be coming any time now."

[eastbay]

Too funny. Time Magazine must be reading this website.

I mean, where else on earth will you find survivalists, commie sympathizers, billionaire (well, maybe quite that rich, not all of us anyhow) investors, and geologists meeting together cordially discussing in such depth any single topic.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'O')ne word...

Vindicated

Now maybe my kid's mom will invest in food and preps rather than tits and new trucks.

(I digress)

Won't happen - she will be like the rest...the government will fix this...

Oh well - so it goes...door burning down and "they" say ..."firetruck should be coming any time now."

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 't')its > food

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('steam_cannon', '.').. It is a terrible possibility that professional organizations don't want to admit its happening, just like global warming deniers... Also lets say it was 1928 and there was a "peak stockmarket" group, such a group would probably have gotten described the same way. That's just how the news always is...

[Leanan]

This is really a pretty good article, despite the dig at peak oilers. And it's apparently in the dead-tree version of the magazine, not just a "web exclusive."

Tom Whipple predicted that the WSJ article would open the doors for the rest of the MSM to cover peak oil. It appears he was correct.

And yes, it does sound like whoever wrote the article reads some peak oil sites. He uses the term "peak lite," which Robert Rapier uses, at TOD and at his blog, R-Squared.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Time Magazine', 'A')mong the peakists, war and economic breakdown are favorite themes. They figure that cheap oil is the essential fuel of modern capitalism, which will founder without it. A more hopeful take is that innovation is the essential fuel of modern capitalism and that high oil prices will drive rapid advances in conservation and alternative energy. Either way, the beginning of the end of the oil era may be upon us, well ahead of schedule.

[drgoodword]

I hope in the next few years that Time's editors will remember this warning that they themselves wrote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f OPEC's members are not able to boost production in coming years, though, it will be impossible to keep blaming the traders as prices rise.

[dohboi]

The fact that this stuff is starting to get into the MSM somehow does not cheer me much. It is likely a sure signal that things have become truly and irreversibly hopeless.

It is like the IPCC, a group originally formed as a delaying tactic to avoid actually dealing with GW back in the 80's, now saying we only have 2-3 years now to get our act together--a sure sign that things have gotten much much worse than anyone is willing to talk about.