Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?

joeltrout

It gets mentioned on CNBC almost daily now. I have heard Matt Simmons' named mentioned numerous times because they want to spur on debates to attract viewers.

Hopefully when oil prices pull back they wont stop the coverage of "peak oil" but I predict as soon as oil drops $15-$20 then they will start talking about something else.

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venky · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 13, 2005 Posts: 810

A lot of prominent persons in the media do refer quite openly to peak oil and seem quite aware of what it means.

But it is rarely accepted to be the main reason for the current rise in oil prices. And ofcourse the narrative that we on peakoil.com are accustomed to.........I mean the doom scenarios and never spoken about.
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mmasters

The reality of peak oil is seldom if ever touched upon in the mainstream. Don't see that changing anytime soon. The more confusion the better as far as global agendas are concerned. It's like the term "illumanati" most people have heard of it and associate it with "conspiracy theory" but are otherwise clueless
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Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3112 Location: Maine

I think peak oil has the makings of a great story. Like global warming it will only really take off when somebody famous embraces it and starts to do something about it. We need Bono or somebody to take it on. Matt Simmons isn't going to get the word out. We need Obama to mention it.
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perdition79

For the past few months, even Car and Driver, an auto enthusiasts' magazine, has been mentioning oil depletion. When worshippers of petroleum acknowledge its end, I'd say that's about as mainstream as you can get.
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eerae · Coal Joined: Jan 30, 2006 Posts: 7

I told my friends and family, hoping they would begin to prepare. They just basically said, "interesting theory," and didn't seem concerned. However I do see more signs out there--pretty soon everyone will be coming to the same conclusion and I won't want to say 'I told you so.' However, I don't really want EVERYONE else coming to that conclusion right now. That will only precipitate the crash, which I want to put off for as long as possible. I still need more time for our family to prepare, but it is too late now for our government to do anything meaningful to help us transition. I am hoping for another couple years, but I'm not sure that we have that.

SpringCreekFarm · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 844

I've been hearing the MSM refer to it as supply and demand problems but I have yet to hear the words 'peak oil' spoken by these talking heads.

All of the symptoms are there. The effects are starting but the MSM is not connecting the dots.

Like others have stated, it will take a famous person to say the words. Then that person will have been THE big hero. What insight. Who could have known?.....</sarcasm>

Oprah? HA! I think people like her are aware that there is a possibility that there might be a problem but since it would probably destroy her wealth along with all the big shot's wealth, she would never dream of uttering those words on her show.

What a day it will be when the State of the Union Address has some PO content. As long as it isn't Bush saying it, whereby it would not be taken seriously at all.

Pops · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?

Every once in a while I Google portions of our intro page (http://www.peakoil.com/sample/) just to see what comes up. I havent done this in a while but here are a couple links with quotes lifted from that page, unattributed of course Smile

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The All Party Parliamentary Group On Peak Oil
“The Economic Impact of Peak Oil”
The House of Commons
Tuesday 29th April 2008, 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
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Dreamtwister · Fission Joined: Feb 06, 2006 Posts: 2093

Aaron · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?

Aaron · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?

vision-master · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?

8 fricken hits. Yippe.

Revi · Fusion Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3112 Location: Maine

I was saying the it hasn't hit the mainstream yet, and then I looked in our local newspaper and saw this today:

http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/columns/5035130.html

I almost fell out of my chair!
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vision-master · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Has Peak Oil gone Mainstream?