No wonder the public is misinformed about energy

Pfish

Because of the journalist who inform them...

Courtesy of Bill Walker

http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker15.html
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What I find most remarkable about PO-ignorance is that it knows no boundaries of political flavour, class, income, profession.

If it's the "libruls" and anti-establishment conspiracy theorists who claim that PO is just a scam of the oil industry and US-warmongers, or the rightwingers and creationists who claim that, like global warming, it's just a scam of treehugging hippies who hate the American way of life and Baby Jesus - if it's the hillbilly trucker who says it's all a conspiracy of Arabs, corrupt politicians or communists, or a Wall Street stockbroker who is mad at the PO-"intellectual molesters" - they are all unified in their stupidity and denial.

That PO-awareness is meeting such a broad coalition of fierce resistance is just giving it more credit in my eyes.

Of course, on the other hand, it could be an indication that we are the ones who are nuts - actually, we are nuts for sure, since the majority of people decides what's nuts and not facts... Shocked

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Starvid

Jesus Christ people are stupid.

While it is true there are insane amounts of coal, uranium, thorium and deuterium out there, you can't put them in your car!

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
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Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

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nth · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 1973

Actually, he buys into the fact we may run into Peak Oil. He just claims we should not be afraid of it. We will just innovate our way out of it with new inventions.

I am not sure, but I believe before we started to use oil, prices for fuel did spike.

dub_scratch

0mar

It's all about rate.

It's like saying you have 10 trillion dollars in the bank, but can only withdraw 15 cents a day. How much money do you actually have?
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MacG · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 1169

Naahh, Bill Walker provide a pretty crude mix of writing. Sometimes its entertaining and thought provoking like this, sometimes it's rightout stupid and full of easily checked misconceptions like this. Anyhow, the libertarians and anarchists will have a terrible time supporting their ideologies when depletion set in. Pretty sad, because they have a lot of good thinking also.

Battle_Scarred_Galactico · Intermediate Crude Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Posts: 970

Ah, the number #1 "solution" is trotted out again for another airing. Sit on your butt and hope that someone bails you out.

I can't remember who it was but someone on this board said the reason that this attitude is SO popular is because it totally removes the individual from any responsibility what so ever, realizing this it's easy to see why it's the posistion of 99%+ of people.

Whoever it was, was completley correct.
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aahala · Intermediate Crude Joined: Feb 03, 2005 Posts: 954

There ought to be a publication standard for anyone writing short articles
on energy directed to the general public. The disclaimer at the top should
be:

"Everything you think you know about energy is partially false; a portion
of what you think you know may be partially true."