I think this is the beginnings of an economy based on perpetual growth and fossil fuel energy running headlong into geological energy constraints. Basically I see an undulatory downward path for the rest of my life. From here out, I think any rallies in our economic condition are going to be met with spiking commodity prices that knock us right back down.
Can't remember. Came across it when doing my first research on oil depletion matters, app. a year ago. In the beginning I found it confusing but now read it daily.
I happend to be glancing through the tononto star and came upon an article talking about the documentary "End of Suburbia." When I got home I looked it up and found LATOC and eventually here. I was quite shocked, I was thinking we had till 2015-2020 till environmental degragation destroyed civilization. PeakOil could be a good thing since it will force people to change for the better even if they don't want too. Of course it could speed up the destruction if people destroy everything to survive.
Joined: Jun 18, 2004 Posts: 800 Location: Western North Carolina
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:
Was reading a post on rec.autos.driving that referred to the article carried by National Geographic called The End of Cheap Oil. Browsed through their message forum on a lark and found a link to www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net.
This is my main peak oil news and dicussion website since May 04.
So, to the moderators, admistrators, and posters on this board, thanks to all of you for making this site so informative, interesting, and just plain entertaining.
I was researching my other obsession... preterism, when I was introduced to http://www.preterism.info my Michael Fenemore... clicked on his "other sites" link and found http://www.peakoil.info... figured if there as a peakoil.info, it was worth a shot to look for peakoil.com, peakoil.net, peakoil.org, etc!
Joined: Jan 29, 2005 Posts: 320 Location: Western NY
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:
I was at the public library,looking at the newly arrived shelf of books.I saw the book "the end of the oil age",and was hooked.After I read that,I did some reaserch on-line,and came to Matts sight,got the crap scared out of me,and then found this sight.
Joined: Aug 15, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: San Diego
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: How did you find peakoil.com?
Researching abrupt climate change, of all things. No exactly sure how I ended up on Matt's site (probably some "potential global catastrophes"-type blog entry. From there, it's an easy jump to PO.com. My wife says I was just looking for something else to worry about though.
She was right about the worry part.
Following that thought - she has come around to accepting PO, although we do differ on the timeline (she thinks we have 5-10 years before things start to go pear shaped, I'm convinced that by this time next year significantly negative effects will be upon us).
I was researching investments in the stock market, went to Sprott Asset Management www.sprott.com which had some recommended reading, Beyond Oil, (Deffeyes), and The Party's Over,(Heinberg), also a Finanicial book by Stephen Leeb. Went to Chapter's book store, bought all 3 books and read them one after the other. Next Heinberg's website called www.museletter.com led me to PeakOil.com. Since I discovered it I spend about 1 hour each evening reading PO. I find when I read the morning paper anything to do with oil pops out at me, and at least oil events take on a whole new meaning now.
It's interesting to hear how people found their way here.
At this point, it's kind of like that movie, "The Beach", where a small community of people live in isolation on a remote and beautiful tropical beach. New members are those who were curious enough, and brave enough to take the plunge. _________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
Joined: Jan 19, 2005 Posts: 68 Location: Dorset, England
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:
Among some of my friends there's a joke about finding out stuff on the net - 'Oh we'll have to look on 'insert appropriate phase' dot com which started when a feral cat was found under one couple's house in Austin. When asked how he knew how to deal with it, Mike answered "I looked it up on feralcat.com" and we all burst out laughing.
I came across PO five or six years ago when 2010-2012 seemed along way away and the only big site was dieoff. In the interim I'd ocassionally revisit dieoff and do a search but it wasn't until last autumn (probably prompted by kitco or policypete) that I typed in peakoil.com straight off and came here. _________________ "If the complexity of our economies is impossible to sustain [with likely future oil supply], our best hope is to start to dismantle them before they collapse." George Monbiot
I saw an interview on tv with Colin Campbell (I believe, or some other PO expert) in which he described PO. Naturally, I wanted to disprove the concept and believe there was oil coming out of our ears and ended up at peakoil.net through google. After reading through the newsletters and articles I found their link to this site. The forum is key because there is daily discussion on it. I still can't believe this thing isn't all over the news. When I watch/hear/read the networks blather on about some issue on end, I can't help but thinking what a big waste of time on their part. I believe ASPO has the right timeline and 2008 is when things will HTF. Although supplies are tight now, the market is very elastic and will push out the heavy blows a couple years.
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