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NYC_SKP

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3. The willful ignorance of economists, politicians, and even scientists around this matter...

Reply to MindMover (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:54 AM

Jul 2012

...is mind-boggling.

Any middle schooler armed with the facts can tell you that with dwindling reserves and rising world population there's going to be a crash of epic and apocalyptic proportions.

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We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all [View all] MindMover Jul 2012 OP

Ice caps melting = new possibilities! "Let's Go!" NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1

Energy sanity is desperately needed.... MindMover Jul 2012 #2

The willful ignorance of economists, politicians, and even scientists around this matter... NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #3

It's now cost effective to boil oil out of rocks! Let's go! yurbud Jul 2012 #12

Unless Ghawar starts to decline pscot Jul 2012 #4

Sanity econmagic Jul 2012 #5

There was never any question that there is enough to fry us all. bemildred Jul 2012 #6

I'm going to guess that the author of this piece IDemo Jul 2012 #7

There are a lot more than just one of those fields ... MindMover Jul 2012 #8

Just one of those fields? IDemo Jul 2012 #9

What part of peak oil was wrong? PO Pops Jul 2012 #10

Peak was always about the fields and the end of cheap oil. Sirveri Jul 2012 #11