C'mon Ianqui, you know what I mean.
Just making sure...
Excuse my intrusion, but I honestly don't know what you meant by "Some of this seems like gloating over the corpse."  I'm NOT trying to pick a fight; I merely want to know what you meant, and I take you at your word that you weren't accusing Ianqui of gloating over the corpse.
Lou, you and I have been posting here a while. And we both know that we "peak oil" people have known for some time that it only takes one big event to push things over the edge. That event has occurred. It is not the final event, but it is a significant signpost of things to come.

My point was this: we were and are right about the inexorable unfolding of events and it is sad, but it is also sometimes very satisfying in some egotistical kind of way to be right, to say "I told you so...." That would be "gloating" as I used it. Certainly, I was not saying ianqui was doing any such thing by soliciting reports on ongoing shortages.

best,