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It's this kind of thing that's responsible for the number of messed up kids there are nowadays. More than anything I feel really sorry for such kids... chances are they'll end up being put on mood al ...

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There is no conclusive proof what so ever that peak oil is here already. We might well have to wait another decade for the peak. But the important thing is that the age of cheap oil is over, and we're ...

Good question. Because I'm beginning to think the "experts" are correct and PO won't happen until around 2036. And, since I've determined that, with any luck, that should be my last year on this plane ...

What's Sakoku?

And why are you proposing we eliminate Japan? Why not some other country?

But I like your warlike thinking. It reminds me of what happens to me whenever I'm pondering peak oil rel ...

The Greek philosophers knew that when passion rules the mind, that the only job left for reason is that of the subservient task to find cleaver ways to satisfy the passions. They called it "putting pa ...

But so long as people judge their lives by the stuff they own and the stuff they want to own...it's not going to work.

So what do you suggest? That we all become buddhist monks? Take one look at th ...

The feasibility of preparing depends largely on the amount of labor available to you (as usual, it all comes down to energy). If you're all by yourself or in a very small family, it will probably not ...

Sometimes I think peak oil will blow over and we'll muddle through it somehow or another because there are enough educated and rational people out there to fix things one step at a time. But then I re ...

Hi, I can give you some numbers based on my experience working as a mechanical engineer in the design of building installations and power supplies.

A healthy adult riding an exercise bike/generator ...

I keep telling my stepson that just because things look bad, that is no excuse for giving up. I tell him that we can't give up now and we can learn now to deal with it when it comes.

Indeed. Giving ...

IMO Peak Oil is part of the subject-matter of hell and should therefore not be introduced to children. Only 1 in 1000 people are capable of dealing with hellish subjects safely and productively, I'd w ...

At some point those problems will flare up enough to cause major disruption. Its the nature of the beast and we are it.

Obviously, but that's really nothing new. In fact this has been the situation ...

I'm glad oilfinder is here to provide an opposing view to the doomers so we can look at the situation from a different perspective.

The author of those graph - which are obviously based on IEA/EIA ...

If recession draws out into depression and commodity prices remain stubbornly high, I do think that public debate concerning the ramification of "Limits to Growth" in general will certainly intensify. ...