Why Can’t We Talk to Each Other? (or, a mining expert and an economist talk PO)

{Heading Out, a “rock guy,” responds to Econbrowser on the different understanding of peak oil by the geology/mining folk and economists…}

…in the end I fear that we are still talking different languages and about different perceived situations. And, unfortunately, there are more economists out there who do not understand the true situation, but are willing to go on the talk shows and comment anyway than there are geologists or petroleum engineers that can be either found, or bothered to refute them. And as a result the general public will not be sufficiently warned in time, and will not appreciate the scale of the problem until after it has arrived.

A lot more interesting conversation after the jump at The Oil Drum…