[SilentRunning]

Peakoil.com will one day end. How do you think this will occur?

[dolanbaker]

I chose option 5, by the time it becomes clear to the vast majority of the general population that resource depletion is seriously "cramping their style" a site like this would be superceded by countless regional ones or subforums on other message board or similar sites.

The ongoing economic crisis is still masking the issue for most.

[Pretorian]

somebody will forget to pay for the hosting or the domain, thats it

[Keith_McClary]

somebody will forget to pay for the hosting or the domain, thats it

Then the domain name will be snapped up and peakoil.com will be a porn site (that happened to a local non-profit).

I pick:
9) Last drop of oil is produced.

[ralfy]

Higher food and oil prices forcing more to cut down on spending, including Internet access.

[JohnRM]

Activity will wind down for one reason or another until no one bothers coming here anymore, just like all other sites that go defunct.

[radon]

When the interesting posters stop posting, migrate elsewhere or die.
Possibly - never.

[Revi]

Nobody except for the people on this site seems to care about peak oil, so I voted for the gradual bored thingie. I am getting gradually more bored myself and I have known about peak oil for a long time. It's even happening on schedule, but still the rest of the world hasn't woken up at all. Fine by me.

[AgentR11]

Higher food and oil prices forcing more to cut down on spending, including Internet access.

Counterpoint: Higher food and oil prices favor recreational activities which do not involve travel, aka internet surfing. cable/dsl is also cheaper than the full blown subscription TV packages.

[Narz]

somebody will forget to pay for the hosting or the domain, thats it

Then the domain name will be snapped up and peakoil.com will be a porn site (that happened to a local non-profit).

Watch as a group of four doomers & Oily Cassandra try to repopulate the world from their bunker! This hot video is also available in flip-book form for use after TSHTF!

[Pops]

The net and virtual office is here to stay, 1/3 of US workers freelance already. For that and a lot of other reasons (lots of people are making lots of money, mainly) I think the net is going to be around a while.


If you're bored with PO, I'd say that's mainly because it hasn't happened yet The amount of liquids in the pipeline are still rising even though they contain less net energy than just a few years ago.

Nearby PO seems fairly likely from the persistently high oil price that so far has only induced higher cost oil, instead of a flood of new, cheap oil. Exactly as predicted by Peakers to the scoffing of the Cornies by the way. The big difference between now and the 1980s is that all the new oil is tar, tight or ten miles down. Today's Boom Towns are built around wells that must be drilled every 300 yards and deplete to near stripper status in months, not too encouraging when you consider the output from the old giants being depleted.

We refuse to negotiate and try to substitute our way out as we've been told by the economists even as net energy goes out the window. You can see several articles a day posted here on the next miraculous solution - unfortunately all are based on the existing, teetering infrastructure and energy base and none are replacements.


Anyway, I go with Keith's No9 "Good to the last drop!"

[MD]

quote pops] "Good to the Last Drop!"

Yeah and it pretty much was, when percolated properly through a fine filter for just long enough.

Yum!

[MD]

to answer the poll: the site will go away or change when the owner either re-purposes it, sells it, or abandons it.

should be obvious

[eXpat]

Remember to put in the end, a banner saying "I told you so..."

[ralfy]

Counterpoint: Higher food and oil prices favor recreational activities which do not involve travel, aka internet surfing. cable/dsl is also cheaper than the full blown subscription TV packages.

Higher oil prices affect not only food but even other necessities, such as health care, which in turn not only affects travel but also cheaper forms of recreation. Other factors such as a credit crunch and unemployment do not help. This is probably why we've also been seeing major declines in exports (esp. for electronics) in Asia for the past eight months, generally global world trade volume dropping, and demand destruction for certain commodities in OECD countries.

And when the situation is prolonged....

[AgentR11]

Health care is a luxury, not a necessity.
Sorry, true facts are sometimes unpleasant.

People without health coverage, for whatever reason, will simply be going without, funny thing though, they'll find money for cheap cell and internet service.

[Revi]

Peak oil was interesting to a few of us, but never really caught on with the mainstream of society. It's too rational. Most people want to blame their circumstances on politics or find some scapegoat. They can't handle the truth.

[ralfy]

Health care is a luxury, not a necessity.
Sorry, true facts are sometimes unpleasant.

People without health coverage, for whatever reason, will simply be going without, funny thing though, they'll find money for cheap cell and internet service.

Health care is a necessity, as seen in most parts of the world. Sorry, facts are sometimes unpleasant.

And the other points I raised earlier are also taking place. You can dream all you want, but those points won't go away.

[no_wuckin_ferries_mate]

Once there was a German peakoil forum: http://peak-oil-forum.de

It is still there, however, almost dead and down to 1 or 2 posts per day. People have just disappeared.

I guess it will be the same here.