[lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters!

[B.]

Yeah it's really weird that the apparent discovery of
unplumbed oil depths in the Gulf of Mexico has sent
many right-wing bloggers into fits of "Fuck yeah! Suck
on it, Mid East!" While they pump their fists.

I saw some maps, looks like this supposed oil field is
*really* far out there. Anyway, the right-leaning
blogs seem to love this find. Very weird, very
policy-wonk nerdy, and also very creepy. But it's
mostly embarrassing to anyone who's crowing about it
(AN OIL FIELD! YESSSSS!!!). I don't see how it changes
anything, really. It's 2006, we're using fossil fuel
powered combustible engines, etc. So there's a new oil
field. Why do some receive this as a message from God?
Man.

-B.

mike larkin wrote:

"http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10152005.html

"And increasingly, I don't believe we're about to run 
out of oil. I hang my hat on the views of Dr.Thomas
Gold (founding director of Cornell University Center
for Radiophysics) as outlined in his 1999 book, The
Deep Hot Biosphere."