From Jenna Orkin
From the "Who Said This Blog Only Gives Bad News?" Department
Aren't all conspiracy theories bizarre?
With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Not "bad news" Jenna. Biased. No information on new records for renewable power generation, no praise of the industry having disproven peak oil so quickly, and drowned the world in more, at real gasoline prices rivaling the early 1970s', time of tail fins and leaded gasoline! No word on how self driving cars, Google, and Tesla have already begun the new personal transport paradigm, and how certified energy experts (Amy Jaffe) are predicting peak demand because of these types of changes. I realize it for someone of a neoMalthusian bent to just put up news they need to rationalize their position, but you've been doing this for most of this century now, and you are still waiting for the end, or dieoff to begin, or oil to peak (again), or just whatever else the MSM serves up for the days drumbeat of rationalization.
ReplyDeletei told ou, johnny-one-note, I don't have time to address these hackneyed arguments.
ReplyDeleteAmy Jaffe has forgotten more about energy economics than the sum total of everyone you have ever met in the peak oil world. It isn't hackneyed, and I'm not making an argument, just noting the quality difference between peak oil sources and actual experts. You wouldn't have seen this because it comes from A) a real source and B) doesn't fit your sites natural bias.
ReplyDeleteExecutive Director, UC-Davis, Energy and Sustainability.
http://www.amymyersjaffe.com/
Opinion of said experts, as opposed to those already discredited, beat cops, amateur violin players, academics in other specialties, accountants, you know, the usual suspects.
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-05-07/why-the-world-s-appetite-for-oil-will-peak-soon-excerpts
duly noted
ReplyDeleteAnd ignored, no doubt. When reality doesn't fit within the rationalization, ignore it! I wonder who taught so many peak oilers that technique, because nearly every one of them uses it.
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