PeakKYJelly wrote:What if Peak Oil was created not because anyone believes that the world is running out of oil, but rather to decrease America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil? What if a bunch of people got together to promote this idea of a 90% dieoff of the human population, just to whip people into a frenzy of supporting alternative sources of energy? What if all the PODesperadoes are just being played by the powers that be?
If it was an invention from ecologic idealists, peak oil would not have the attention from the academic and scientific community. The numbers just don't add up it has nothing to do with propaganda.
If this was the creation of the people in power, you would see peak oil propaganda in every street corner, you would hear alarmist speeches from Bush (the kind of those about terrorism) and he would create new arguments out of the problem so that he could pass new laws.
Those who know about peak oil and the likley consequences are those who question the mainstream messages and beliefs. They try to grasp the reality of the situation while those who don't want to see just deny everything that comes against their views.
OF COURSE Saudi Arabia says it has plenty of oil left. They have built their entire economy on the selling of oil. They are bound to the delivery of oil the same way the US is bound to the consumption of oil. None of the two want to see this changing because they have built their entire pyramid on this. To question this means to question the pyramid, therefore, the people at the top are making sure that the consensus on the situation does not change for as long as possible.
People at the top either in Russia, USA, European Union, Saudi Arabia are people interested in themselves and the power they have. What they do, they are doing to comfort their power and NOT to provide healthy information to the masses so that they can live more independently and freely.
What the world needs now is leaders who would deconstruct the whole system so that those leaders end up with no power at all and end jobless.
Which leader on earth would want to do this ? There is NO WAY any leader will do this because what drives someone to the top in our system is thirst for power (at all costs) and not gentle care and attention to the well being of others.
You'd better ignore the people whose interests are too intrinsically bound to the problematic they expose. This goes for Saudi Arabia and other middle east officials about petrol but there are many more exemples.