Peak Oil Passnotes: Peak Oil Zombie Attack

As we have made clear many times in this column we hold little truck with many of the whackos who inhabit the wondrous world of


Then we are told that the markets or the U.S. economy or the world economy is destined for some catastrophic collapse. In fact we have already been told this on several occasions. When oil hit $40 per barrel, when oil hit $50 per barrel, after Katrina and Rita hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, last summer when Brent hit $78.64. So little time, so many collapses. This is so accurate a prediction the Dow Jones hit a record of 13,800 this week. Now that is what we call a collapse. Actually it is not. It is the opposite.

Groups like the British National Party throw down their bananas, lift their knuckles from the floor and tell us any downturn in energy production will produce racial conflict. Rather than people working together, as they so often do in times of crisis, they will set fire to their neighbours house because he/she is Irish/Jamaican/Pakistani/homosexual/educated/able to count past 10. All because of the failure to invest early enough in solar panels!

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