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

[Michael Pugliese]

On 4/13/05, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I don't understand the connection you are attempting to make between peak
> oil and this quote or the link to Professors Gimenez's Sociology course
> description. Want to explain what point you're driving towards because you
> lost me?
> Are you speculating that because FTW is full of nuts and peak oil is
> discussed on that site (an assumption I make because of the wording of the
> quote above) that any discussion of peak oil is nuts? That the only people who
> discuss peak oil read and rely on Ruppert the wacko for support?
> I've never really read anything beyond a few paragraphs by the man and don't
> intend to start now. Some people find it amusing and some find it believable
> but I just find it annoying.
> 
> John Thornton
-- 

   Just rubbing one of my pet peeves. Activists who latch onto ONE
book and/or "expert" who ignore or decline to investigate further the
debates that exist on every question, both intra-left and between the
left, broadly defined, and our centrist and conservative opponents.
Over the decades talking with tablers at demos, I've become
increasingly annoyed at activists with no awareness of the slender
basis on which they pitch their solutions.

   On your specific point, about peak oil and FTW, the tablers at
demos I've talked with that sell the Heinberg book, haven't even
googled or visited amazon.com to see that there are these books as
well, on the issue.  Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak by
Kenneth S. Deffeyes (Hardcover)  The End of Oil : On the Edge of a
Perilous New World by Paul Roberts Challenging Times Ahead.
(Geology).(Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage) : An
article from: American Scientist [HTML] by Brian J. Skinner (Digital) 

 Energy in an insecure World. (Book Review).(Hubbert's Peak: The
Impending World Oil Shortage ; Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel
Cells, and the Prospe ... (book review) : An article from: World Watch
[HTML] by Seth Dunn (Digital) Supply and demand: oil production will
peak by 2009. Get used to it. (Editorial).(Kevin Gainer, Energy)(Brief
Article)(Editorial) : An article from: Energy [HTML] by Kevin Gainer
(Digital)

 

 

 
Michael Pugliese