"We've got enough oil out there to turn the planet into

[zippy890]

an Easy Bake Oven" says Michael Lynch 'a fervent anti-peakist, head of the energy consulting firm Strategic Energy & Economic Research'

What the f**k kind of comment is that?! Is that supposed to be funny?
from an article in today's Boston Globe 'Oil Futures' by Drake Bennett (sorry, can't find a link online)

Anyway, the article presents both sides, but draws a lot from Kenneth Deffeyes - who says oil has peaked
http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html

"The anti-peakist narrative can have a smug ring to it, with its firm faith in the power of markets and progress & rational behaviour.." from Globe article

Yeah, smug enough to turn our planet into an easy bake oven.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. If you include all the coal, DEFINITELY

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. and oil shale, fugggedabouditit

for sure.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Personally I'm looking forward to having waterfront property. I have go

40 miles now.....

[ochazuke]

4. It goes to show that we have to give up petroleum one way or the other:

Either we won't be able to meet rising demand, in which case the price of petroleum will rise so high that it will cause a recession/depression.

or

We just keep burning more and more of the stuff and turn the Earth into another Venus.

[ret5hd]

5. you know, he could be right and still be wrong...

peak oil doesn't really say HOW MUCH oil there is...it just says HOW MUCH ENERGY it takes to extract the oil that is left.

As soon as it takes one unit of enrgy to extract one unit of oil energy, we are out of oil.

[lectrobyte]

8. Exactly. Peak oil is not about running out of oil, it's about running

out of CHEAP oil.

[glitch]

6. the anti-global warmists aren't going to be happy with him.

He's an obvious believer. :evilgrin:

[bananas]

7. link found

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/26/oil_futures/