Thanks VT
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Plant I really don't think there will ever be a tipping point in attitudes, how many times over the years have we said "This MSM Story (military report, etc) is IT!" but it never was. By contrast, look at the Maguieri fluff piece put out by "Harvard", it was quoted and misquoted in every MSM broadcast and issue for weeks.
The next "repricing" will only solidify the existing biases. People who think the gov is intentionally keeping oil prospects off the table will never stop blaming gov, ditto the people who think the OilCos are intentionally keeping oil off the market.
Or to put it another way, it doesn't matter how you twist someone's arm, you can't change the direction their knee jerks. LOL
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Hi Paulo, thanks and thanks for chiming in.
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eFarmer! Dude! send me a PM and tell me whats happening, I miss you around here.
As above, I'm afraid the old crust like us will need to be chipped away by the next generation before there will be much change. I remember in middle school drawing pictures of Rat Fink and "choppers", remember that? Hemis and big blocks were what I dreamed about. My grand kids have no interest in cars whatsoever.
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It could happen that we all come together Ibon but I kinda think that to stand together you need to have an entity to stand against. In this case the "enemy" is our own wasteful habits and honestly, long term self sacrifice for the common good is not our natural urge.
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ROCK your POD is great if it helps people grasp the situation. Heck, extend it all the way back to when some cave dude built a fire ring out of oil shale if it helps.
Personally I think PO is a pretty simple concept, I wrote in the po.com primer almost a decade ago:
...any finite resource, (including oil), will have a beginning, middle, and an end of production, and at some point it will reach a level of maximum output...
Most folks, unless they are just trolling for kicks, will admit the logic of that statement and draw some conclusions. But whatever conclusions they draw will be essentially a knee jerk gut reaction depending on their particular biases and beliefs and there is really not a whole lot of use trying to change their mind. the best you can do is plant a seed.
I released about 12k posts ago that the best a person can hope for in tapping on a message board is to line up the dots in such a way as to make things as understandable as possible for whomever stumbles by that is
ready to receive the message. But no bumper sticker or pat slogan is going to change their behavior without the confirmation of the unleaded price marquee at the local Quik Sac.
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Thanks Sun, feel free.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)