tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post4798219365262875803..comments2023-12-23T19:04:18.739-05:00Comments on The Crow's Eye: Crisis SpeculationsJack Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-88569023172011928442010-05-08T11:32:36.319-04:002010-05-08T11:32:36.319-04:00Charles,
I think Jenny thinks she's trumped o...Charles,<br /><br />I think Jenny thinks she's trumped our argument, missing entirely that in comment #3, I already linked her link, which corroborates both the theme of the essay, and your comment, at number 5.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-66291132020370814392010-05-08T10:25:09.235-04:002010-05-08T10:25:09.235-04:00Jenny can claim that "a joke is on me" b...Jenny can claim that "a joke is on me" but she hasn't shown what the joke is, nor why it is "on" anyone. Another nice try but resultant failure, Jenny. Say hi to Chip Berlet for me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-13169143316279322662010-05-07T19:50:47.781-04:002010-05-07T19:50:47.781-04:00Jokes on you all-Saudi Arabia's been expecting...Jokes on you all-Saudi Arabia's been expecting the oil peak:<br /><br />http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2010/02/saudi-arabia-preparing-for-oil-demand.htmlJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-40001309599316864142010-05-07T10:43:25.300-04:002010-05-07T10:43:25.300-04:001) JM's job is to dissemble around the InterWe...1) JM's job is to dissemble around the InterWebToobz. Nice work Jenny. Seriously. Your masters would be proud. First-rate lying there! Chip Berlet salutes you! You almost got a sleepy-eyed reader, or half thereof, to think this is only about whether "experts" agree on oil's remaining locations and extent. Given that oil takes millions of years to make and we've run through nearly all accessible usable oil, I suppose you and your "expert" intend to be here another million years to reap the benefits of what will be there then? Yes, thought so. Nice work!<br /><br />2) Jack -- Dmitry is worth reading regularly. His brand of dry humor is unmatched in my travels and his insights and forecasts haven't been shaken once, as far as I can tell. I appreciate the nod in my direction, but I don't mind if you skip that part and instead give the high-sign to Dmitry instead.<br /><br />3) The most difficult theme to crack among Americans is the idea that financial system collapse, or the collapse of segments of a system, is due to "mismanagement" or "lack of oversight," or "deregulation." Nope. Not at all. It's merely a matter of people being scared & greedy, and using a "get it while the getting's good" approach, conducted in a way to create a wide divide between haves and have-nots, to enhance "security" or some sense thereof, in the haves. That is the theme playing out on Earth right now in "developed" countries -- the knowledge that shell-game economies premised on confidence scams (manipulation of hypothecated interests, etc) cannot last forever, and that the global oil-based systems are nearing the endpoint of their primary source of energy. <br /><br />Apart from the problem of oil resource finitude spelling a lack of energy, there's also the problem of so many modern "products" being created synthetically by fractioned petroleum byproducts, material created through cracking, refining, distillation. To borrow from <i>The Graduate</i> -- Plastics, in other words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-19260700505657491272010-05-07T10:14:49.536-04:002010-05-07T10:14:49.536-04:00Serendipity:
http://www.risk.net/energy-risk/news...Serendipity:<br /><br />http://www.risk.net/energy-risk/news/1602907/saudi-arabia-global-oil-exports-wane-post-2010<br /><br />h/t SAR via lambert @ CorrenteJack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-20383771214862780452010-05-07T10:11:35.293-04:002010-05-07T10:11:35.293-04:00It's a neat trick to treat "supply" ...It's a neat trick to treat "supply" as a magic commodity independent of extraction and production.<br /><br />It allows the opining party to ignore EROEI, and pretend that the possibility of a resource immediately equals its refined and commoditized final product.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-15661705463721059602010-05-07T09:49:50.939-04:002010-05-07T09:49:50.939-04:00I beg to differ on Peak Oil-from a pretty well ver...I beg to differ on Peak Oil-from a pretty well versed energy expert via e-mail<br /><br />"I don't put much stock in doomer predictions of oil supply crashes - there is plenty out there - I'd say the peak is still a decade off and the decline will be relatively slow (and there are plenty of ways of filling the gape, regardless)."<br /><br />the guy runs a blog here:<br /><br />http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.com