[lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Kevin Phillips: declinist

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

Whay do you mean you don't "believe" in peak oil? 
That an endless supply of oil is available? 
That the amount available is so great that it will last for hundreds of more years at the current rate of 
consumption and that the vast majority of oil geologists are wrong?
That the peak will be passed with no significant change in price and/or availability and that the transition to 
alternative fuels will be relatively painless?

Saying you don't believe in peak oil is a bit like saying you don't believe in global warming. Which 
projection do you disagree with or do you think the scientists involved have just gotten it all spectacularly 
wrong?

John Thornton

On 16 Mar 2006 at 11:16, Jim Devine wrote:


> I don't believe in "peak oil," but the likely environmental
> consequences of our continued oil addiction are of a similar magnitude
> to the posited results of peak oil. Different, but similar in terms of
> costs.
> 
> On 3/16/06, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > From the review it looks like Phillips addresses "peak oil" in this book.
> > One wonders whether he actually believes it (or  just sees a ploy increase
> > sales of his book) and whether his voice is representative of the circles of
> > power in which he once traveled. SR
> 
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
> 
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