[vaseline2008]

I didn't know really where to post this so if inappropriate for this area, mods please move accordingly.

As I was reading a new article in Yahoo Finance called "Peak Everything -- Why Everything Costs More" (originally from Bloomberg) and I couldn't help but notice the comments to the article.

Sorted by "Popular Now" the majority of thumbs up goes to comments that reflect ignorance and attacks to the author and government. What I find fascinating is that human sentiment and feelings seem to trump evidence, which is nothing new in light of human history but funny just the same. Just thought I would post this to make for some entertaining reading.

[Plantagenet]

We are far far far from being at peak sentiment over peak oil or anything else in the USA.

Now Greece....Greece is approaching peak sentiment over the austerity demanded by the EU. And Syria is getting close to peak sentiment over Assad.

But here in the US and through most of the developed world, peak oil and resource limits to growth are just a blip of something seemingly very distant faintly seen on the radar screen and certainly nothing to get very worked up over.....


Greeks approaching "peak sentiment".

[Pops]

One of the first sets of factoids that caught my attention around our general situation is the idea of easy pickins. It is only logical the easiest be consumed first and the hardest saved for last.

We can fluff the numbers, celebrate each incremental additional like it's the bomb, point at this and that including inflation (25% since 2000) but the fact remains the easy is always used first and the hard last. And the hard is the expensive.

The same can be said about accepting change I guess. At first it's easy to find convenient scapegoats and magic solutions, but it gets harder and harder as time goes by and the easy knee-jerk fantasies run their course.

[vision-master]

The waters will turn into foam by this summer.....

[vaseline2008]

We are far far far from being at peak sentiment over peak oil or anything else in the USA.

Now Greece....Greece is approaching peak sentiment over the austerity demanded by the EU. And Syria is getting close to peak sentiment over Assad.

Sorry for the confusion, the title reflects sentiments towards Peak ideology/theory/fact, not a Peak in Sentiment.

[Plantagenet]

We are far far far from being at peak sentiment over peak oil or anything else in the USA.

Now Greece....Greece is approaching peak sentiment over the austerity demanded by the EU. And Syria is getting close to peak sentiment over Assad.

Sorry for the confusion, the title reflects sentiments towards Peak ideology/theory/fact, not a Peak in Sentiment.

Ahhhh. Thank you for clarifying, vaseline.

Check out Prof. Bardi's blog post on this topic---its very interesting.

Usually we think that the common, uneducated person is most likely to fail to grasp facts. The curious thing about peak oil is that nominally intelligent professional people in the government, at banks, and in industry seem to be equally incapable of abandoning their set views on ever-increasing economic growth and understanding the profound anti-growth nature of the peak oil problem.

[Cog]

Damn. An Obama-free plant-post. I might just take you off ignore--after all this time.

If you had him on ignore, how did you see his post?

[SeaGypsy]

Probably didn't log in. Ignore only functions when logged in.

[Plantagenet]

Probably didn't log in. Ignore only functions when logged in.

My computers (all MACs) automatically log me in so if I've got someone on ignore they are definitely ignored.
I guess thats another thing to thank Steve Jobs for.