Peak Nonsense
Posted: Tue 29 May 2007, 08:37:33
So I have been lurking & reading here for some time & I had a few comments.
While it's obvious that conventional oil will peak eventually, it's not really possible to predict when, as far as I can see. For all we know some company will make a large new find tomorrow which renders all this fine panic you have created meaningless.
We don't know what's going to happen... everybody panic!
You people should try the asteroid doom fantasies... about the same level of credibility as peak oil, but with excellent graphics.
How much money does this peak thing make anyway?
Surely you can find a better way to scare people for profit.
This Armageddon in the gas-tank thing is clever, because it plays on people's fears of poverty, at a time when gas prices are high. But the truth is you can't predict when this will happen within 3 decades as far as I can tell, which is like saying it's possible that dolphins will rise from the sea to destroy mankind someday. (It could happen)
You people seem to think that as oil prices rise, humanity will just sit around waiting for society to collapse. Don't you think people will be scrambling for new energy sources & thinking of things you didn't anticipate? And if that's true, how can you predict what will happen to our energy future?
The truth is you can't.
But some of you write as if you already know what will happen... like this Montequest character. It's foolish to assume you know what will happen, when you obviously can't know that. Peak oil may very well be a reality, but some of you make a dozen logical leaps of faith between possible peak oil & some future where Mad Max roams the land eating dog-food.
Please...
I rather suspect that many of you are expressing your frustration about other parts of your life, & not really about peak oil itself. For centuries sheeple have flocked to the banner of impending doom of one kind or another. There must be something comforting about mankind's fall from greatness that's appeals to certain kinds of people or something.
I'm sure this post will get deleted or whatever as soon as TPTB around here discover it. Can't have anybody spoiling the doom-fun right? People, if you go to a website that says, "Something terrible is coming... but we don't know when, or what will happen", you have to wonder what they are getting out of it.
Profit? A feeling of superiority? Kicks?
Whatever... you might as well predict that the Morlocks will rise from the Earth to devour us all. It could happen.
Start a real website when you have some facts which can be verified. Until then this "The sky is falling sometime between now & 50 years from now", just isn't very scary.
On a side note, some of you should study up on the laws of thermodynamics... they do not mean what you think they mean.
So go ahead and censor or edit my post... seems like the norm around here; from my observations.
While it's obvious that conventional oil will peak eventually, it's not really possible to predict when, as far as I can see. For all we know some company will make a large new find tomorrow which renders all this fine panic you have created meaningless.
We don't know what's going to happen... everybody panic!
You people should try the asteroid doom fantasies... about the same level of credibility as peak oil, but with excellent graphics.
How much money does this peak thing make anyway?
Surely you can find a better way to scare people for profit.
This Armageddon in the gas-tank thing is clever, because it plays on people's fears of poverty, at a time when gas prices are high. But the truth is you can't predict when this will happen within 3 decades as far as I can tell, which is like saying it's possible that dolphins will rise from the sea to destroy mankind someday. (It could happen)
You people seem to think that as oil prices rise, humanity will just sit around waiting for society to collapse. Don't you think people will be scrambling for new energy sources & thinking of things you didn't anticipate? And if that's true, how can you predict what will happen to our energy future?
The truth is you can't.
But some of you write as if you already know what will happen... like this Montequest character. It's foolish to assume you know what will happen, when you obviously can't know that. Peak oil may very well be a reality, but some of you make a dozen logical leaps of faith between possible peak oil & some future where Mad Max roams the land eating dog-food.
Please...
I rather suspect that many of you are expressing your frustration about other parts of your life, & not really about peak oil itself. For centuries sheeple have flocked to the banner of impending doom of one kind or another. There must be something comforting about mankind's fall from greatness that's appeals to certain kinds of people or something.
I'm sure this post will get deleted or whatever as soon as TPTB around here discover it. Can't have anybody spoiling the doom-fun right? People, if you go to a website that says, "Something terrible is coming... but we don't know when, or what will happen", you have to wonder what they are getting out of it.
Profit? A feeling of superiority? Kicks?
Whatever... you might as well predict that the Morlocks will rise from the Earth to devour us all. It could happen.
Start a real website when you have some facts which can be verified. Until then this "The sky is falling sometime between now & 50 years from now", just isn't very scary.
On a side note, some of you should study up on the laws of thermodynamics... they do not mean what you think they mean.
So go ahead and censor or edit my post... seems like the norm around here; from my observations.