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Are there any FTW subscribers here who could summarize the latest from FTW? Mike says it's the most terrifying story in 4 years.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

Sarah C.

Hi fellow peakers,

The news the past week has been quite distressing. Between the Iranian Oil Bourse, Lovelock's warning that we're going to be reduced to 1,000 breeding pairs, and the Kuwait Reser ...

Hi all. I regularly read Kunstler's blog over at http://www.jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com

His last two postings have me thinking he has either been threatened or he simply see the writing on the ...

In my opinion, authors such as Leggett probably know their proposals are doomed for the reasons explained above: lack of political will, lack of time, the fact 1 billion people basically need to aband ...

Earthbound,

You folks seem like you are well on your way to developing as seaworthy a post-peak oil lifeboat as a group of people could be, even though I realize most of you would be living this wa ...

I don't think all societies will degenerate into the stone age, but some will probably nearly do. Most probably will land somwhere in the 17th century though.

Any collapse that occurs won't return ...

I go to personals on www.craigslist.com and send non-commital e-mails to the desperate females, especially the hippie, earthy, or liberal ones.

I'm not trying to date them, I e-mail ones that are f ...

What sort of behavior modification does the pessimistic point of view promote?

O Man, that's one of the most polite yet harshest critiques that I've seen.

Giving up a car, pulling money out of t ...

It's important to establish what you mean by "success." Is your primary concern educating people about the problem? Or are you concerned about the social ramifications of conveying this information t ...

How did you find out about it? Whatever worked on you is likely to work with your friends and family.

I've found either people listen or they don't. The particular site or book doesn't make that m ...

They answer to all of these type questions is: we will do it WHEN WE NEED TO.

That is not the question, the question is: will we have it WHEN WE NEED IT?

If we wait till our current supply of w ...

Flow,

The real experts were all at the Denver oil conference last week. And their conclusioins were no where near as rosy as those put forth by armchair experts like yourself and John Denver.

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Note the consistent use of "if . . ." and "assuming . . ."

If all the cars purchased in the USA were converted to hybrids, we could eliminate imported oil all of of our foreign oil imports when com ...

Like cure the common cold?

If we can take a super computer that use to fill up an entire room 20 years ago and put it into a computer that fits inside a desk drawer, I am pretty sure we can do ju ...

Wow, you make handling this crisis seem as easy as rearranging legos. Also good to see you are capable of predicting the future:

If peak oil happened today, we could have coal to oil production pla ...