On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
The New York Times / August 25, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy
By MICHAEL LYNCH
... But we can’t let the false threat of disappearing oil lead
the government to throw money away on harebrained renewable energy
schemes or impose unnecessary and expensive conservation measures
on a
public already struggling through tough economic times.
Michael Lynch, the former director for Asian energy and security at
the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology, is an energy consultant.
Shane:
That says it all, doesn't it?
I don't think it's useful to dismiss someone's argument just because
they are associated with politically-incorrect organizations. Even a
stopped clock is right twice a day. What if we reject any thoughts or
data presented by anyone who's associated in any way with immoral and
parasitic institutions such as Wall Street? Instead, we should find
the logical and/or factual flaws in the argument.
By the way, whose interests are served if people are convinced that
the "peak oil" theory is wrong? It seems to me that the oil companies
win either way.
An oil-industry flack scoffing at global warming? What's new about
that?
And, coincidentally (?), a featured article about Prince Turki al-
Faisal in the same day's NYTIMES declares:
"...The Saudis have genuine reasons to fear the effects of the Obama
administration’s energy policy and its commitment to reducing oil
consumption, as well as efforts to reduce carbon emissions. As Prince
Turki points out himself, Saudi Arabia holds 25 percent of the world’s
known oil reserves and would like to keep selling oil for several more
decades..."
Grandly overstated those fears about Obama might be, but the
connection is clear.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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