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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 11:30 AM
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Peak Oil Debunked
The word has went out. The Reich propaganda outlets have been given their orders.

Can't have the addicts making other arrangements with the era of peak petroleum profits on the horizon.

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The Four Horsemen of the Energy Apocalypse Caused This Oil Mess
Limbaugh - April 29, 2008

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042908/content/01125106.guest.html

You have China and India growing rapidly, folks. The supply has to grow in proportion or these prices are going to keep rising. The only people getting what they want out of this are the environmentalist wackos. They are the only people happy about this. Have you seen these stories, these scaremongering, fear-oriented stories? Some people predicting $200 a barrel per oil. Somebody out there saying $10 a gallon gasoline. Now, let's not get carried away here and pile on the panic, but for heaven's sake, can we look at the real world? Not at the windmill wackos and how they would like us to see the real world. Let me give you some reality, and this is from Bloomberg: "Brazil may be pumping 'several million' barrels of crude daily by 2020, vaulting the nation into the ranks of the world's seven biggest producers." Several million barrels of crude daily by 2020. They're talking about pumping oil 12 years from now, folks. How can that be if we're running out? That stupid question that Bush got about we're reaching our peak, asinine. Absolute BS, undiluted, pure stinky BS!

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Don't misunderstand me, ladies and gentlemen. I'm all for conservation. I'm all for not wasting things. I do that in my daily life. However, conservation does not equal growth. We can conserve all we want and that's not going to produce any more -- and whatever we save by conserving is minuscule, especially with other countries out there developing and growing. There's no question what has to be done here; there's none. And once again, the people standing in the way of the growth and progress and prosperity of this country are your favorite, you-can-count-on-them-every-damn-time, liberal Democrats.


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Peak Oil Panic
Irwin M. Stelzer, Weekly Standard April 29, 2008

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/043fhyiv.asp?pg=1

Another myth: we are running out of oil. According to WorldPublicOpinion.org "majorities in 15 of the 16 nations surveyed around the world think that oil is running out. . . . Only 22 percent on average believe that 'enough oil will be found so that it can remain a primary source of energy for the foreseeable future'." Those majorities who think we are running out of oil include 76 percent of the American citizens polled. Luckily, they are wrong.

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Here in America, Congress alternates between calls for "energy independence" and refusals to allow drilling in what it considers environmentally sensitive areas in Alaska and offshore California and Florida. There's more, but you get the idea. There is a lot of oil out there to be found and produced, not even including the vast reserves in Canada's tar sands. We might have reached the age of peak panic about oil supplies, but not of peak oil.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 11:35 AM
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1. Exactly how long does this mathematically-impaired ignoramus think
this "growth" he obviously worships can continue???
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 11:38 AM
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2. These are the same idiots who ranted that oil wouldn't cross 50/barrel.
When we cross 200, they'll just say 'Well of course, but 300/barrel? Only wackos would claim such a thing!'

Some of them don't even realize they do it.
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 11:50 AM
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3. shock doctrine
Maybe this is part of some nefarious shock doctrine plan to allow the system to collapse so they can privatize everything. Heritage recommended a 'leninist' strategy to privatize social security back in the 80s. Let things collapse and panic, then push through a privatization plan to eliminate gas taxes, anti-trust legislation & environmental regulations. I wouldn't put it past them.



Peak oil is real. I reject the doomsday scenarios, but it is a fact that we need to address.
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:21 PM
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4. Funny, because I feel we need to follow a 'Leninist' strategy to initiate
a new Progressive era.

The Republicans are doing a good job in moving us toward that goal.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:32 PM
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5. Wow. He's still around?
Edited on Thu May-01-08 08:33 PM by tjwash
The last thing I heard about Rush, is he got busted for having a pocket full of stolen Viagra, while he was out trolling Caribbean islands for under aged prostitutes.


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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 08:34 PM
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6. You know who agrees with them? Greg Palast.
That's when I lost my respect for the investigative journalism skills of Mr. Palast.
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