When I said
I have recently read some remarks that Katrina is not a "peak oil" event. As PG says, of course it is. Demand has never been this high and growing. For that matter, supply has never been this high either. Whether the peak occurs in 2007/08, 2010, 2015 or 2020 as CERA believes, we are on a non-sustainable course in the future. So over this period from now until the peak, there will always be events -- natural or geopolitical or geological -- which will constrain supply and demand. How this plays out economically is really, in the larger sense I am talking about, beside the point. It is short-sited in my view to dismiss Katrina or unrest in Nigeria, for that matter, as unrelated to peak oil.
Which part confused you? Note that I did not mention the "balance" of supply and demand.
Dave - My original message on the old board was not in reply to you, but to Goose's posting. The old site did not have threaded messaging so it was not clear. Then Camille Roy replied characterizing my comment as "pointy headed blather", which PG thought insightful enough to copy over here.
I actually wasn't trying to single anyone out...just attempting to be provocative and get the conversation going again (it was an interesting exchange...).