[lbo-talk]Peak oil and Why can't you guys learn to quoteandattribute properly?

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 16:47:32 PDT 2005


---- Original Message ---- From: Jordan Hayes To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk]Peak oil and Why can't you guys learn to quoteandattribute properly?


> John Thornton writes:
>
>> based on the information I have read most oil geologists
>> believe between 2007 and 2010 is most probable.
>
> Is that "most oil geologists" ...
>
> ... in the world?
> ... in the set of them that think there's a peak coming?
> ... who answered a "survey" ...?
>
>> While it is true no one can know for certain until it has
>> passed the smart money is on a date before 2010 in my opinion.
>
> Well, we'll probably still be here, so I'm going to start a tradition
> of marking predictions with the term CHECKPREDICTION so that we can
> search for it in the archives later ;-)
>
> /jordan
>
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It's sorta like pinning the stock quotes to the wall and throwing darts at them. Write me in for 2030-2060 depending on a couple of variables (I typed that last sentence with a straight face... ...really.) and a statistical flier or two thrown into the mix.

L http://www.leighm.net



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