Re: Another find.. Fresh oil and gas find in Brazil: (updati
Posted: Sun 13 Jun 2010, 00:04:33
bromius wrote:A serious decline in global oil production will very likely mean a decrease in the material standard of living at best, and extreme hardship and suffering at worst, for everyone we know and ourselves. Claiming that people who believe peak oil is a problem want it to happen so that they can be correct is crass in the extreme.
On the contrary, I can show you at least two polls on this forum where the majority of respondents said 'yes' to the question of "Do you want peak oil to occur in the near future?" Here is one of them. 53% of the forum said they *do* want peak oil to occur in the near future. There was another poll about 4 or 5 years ago I saw once while I was browsing through some old threads, I can find it if you want me to. So, sorry, I am not being crass, I am telling you what the majority of people on this forum desire. Perhaps you haven't been too observant, but the kind of people who voted 'yes' in that poll are people who *want* a decrease in the material standard of living - which is why they want a near-term peak in oil production. It took me less than a month of posting on this forum to realize that. Perhaps you haven't been too observant.