Peak Oil

4dsc

(5,787 posts) Sat Jul 21, 2012, 10:45 AM Jul 2012

Oil, politics and resource wars

Robert Hirsch: Chaos is going to occur just because of the announcement that Peak Oil is real.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NG21Dj04.html

What an amazing interview that will be ignored by the US media.

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Oil, politics and resource wars (Original Post) 4dsc Jul 2012 OP

Liar: "I have worked in the oil industry for many years, I'd never heard of Peak Oil" (2005) NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1

Explain why you believe he's a liar 4dsc Jul 2012 #2

Maybe he was just clueless, or an asshole, or a shill with his head in the sand. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #3

Most Americans have never heard of peak oil 4dsc Jul 2012 #5

He wasn't "most americans". He worked for shell. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #6

Because you responce is based on conjecture 4dsc Jul 2012 #7

You, Sir, cannot spell worth a damn. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #8

PS: M. King Hubert also worked with Shell. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #4

NYC_SKP

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1. Liar: "I have worked in the oil industry for many years, I'd never heard of Peak Oil" (2005)

Reply to 4dsc (Original post)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 11:05 AM

Jul 2012

Lars Schall: Mr Hirsch, in 2005 you were given the task to come up with a report related to Peak Oil. How did this came about?

Robert Hirsch: It came about because I did an analysis to look at the big problems that energy research and development should look into in the future, and I came across something called Peak Oil. Even though I have worked in the oil industry for many years, I'd never heard of Peak Oil. I started to dig deeper and deeper into it, and the deeper I got the more difficult and dangerous the concept was.

4dsc

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2. Explain why you believe he's a liar

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 12:37 PM

Jul 2012

Many people work in the oil industry and have never heard about peak oil.

NYC_SKP

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3. Maybe he was just clueless, or an asshole, or a shill with his head in the sand.

Reply to 4dsc (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:45 PM

Jul 2012

Because the term has been around longer than I have, since the 1950's, so the man has no business having a voice in the discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert

IMHO.

4dsc

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5. Most Americans have never heard of peak oil

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 08:20 AM

Jul 2012

So my guess is he didn't either.

We could post this article in every paper across the country and millions of Americans would still be ignorant about the term peak oil.

Let me guess, you're in denial about peak oil.

NYC_SKP

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6. He wasn't "most americans". He worked for shell.

Reply to 4dsc (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 10:32 AM

Jul 2012

I don't know why you would guess that I'm in denial, especially as I've devoted my life to teaching teachers that we need to be free of fossil fuel dependency and sit on a number of boards and committees all related to alternative energy on state and national basis and I just commissioned my first large 500 MW solar PV system, at a cost under $5/watt.

Yeah, I'm in denial, sure, got it.

Available here: http://oilposter.org/ I have multiple copies of this poster in my offices:

My picture below is a joke I created, maybe that gave you the wrong impression: