The ”New York Times” Smears Peak Oil

The New York Times is considered one of the world’s top newspapers. This reputation has been tarnished, as it became a cheerleader for invading Iraq, along with a detailed series about Iraq’s WMDs, which never existed. The Times recently took a position on “peak oil”


All oil companies are reassuring consumers that peak oil is decades away. This view is odd given the inability of several oil companies to replace their oil reserves depleted by production with new discoveries. If there is plenty of untapped oil around the world, why do they have trouble finding it? Many have favored “drilling for oil on Wall Street,” by acquiring smaller oil companies and their oil reserves.

The Times has joined oil companies in denouncing concerns that peak oil is near. Like all good propaganda, the Times disguises it as news. Last March, it smeared those warning of peak oil with an editorial hidden within a featured news article “Oil Innovations Pump New Life into Old Wells”…

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