Reply #4: say whatever you want (edited, because I don't want to be a troll too...) [View All]

Say whatever you want. We're trying to inform and educate--and if the only way you can criticize us is by calling our work garbage, then that says a lot more about you than it does about our work.

I will let the blurbage speak for itself:

TOD is a community facilitated by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a 501(C)3 charitable organization, constructed with the purpose of bringing together intelligent people to have intelligent empirically-based discussions of the future of our energy supply. Most of our roster of editors and contributors possess advanced degrees (MAs, MScs, and Ph.D.s) from many disciplines including engineering, physics, other hard sciences, the social sciences, as well as other relevant fields. Our goal is to influence the discourse about our energy future by facilitating informed and analysis-based discussion about the future of our energy supply. The Oil Drum currently averages over 30000 unique visits and 80000 unique page views per day across its network of websites.

Simply put, we must push for a better discourse about, and understanding of, energy in the world--the geopolitical, political, and social aspects of a plateauing supply with ever growing global demand will have an impact on the daily lives, especially of those who are less fortunate. Our energy future--a question that can be debated by rational people--provided they had the requisite information--needs to be debated more forthrightly and in much more detail and with much more transparency and frequency than is currently the case. Too much is at stake not to do so.

If that's garbage work, then so be it.