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90 comments on What would we have predicted for Kuwait?

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buzzinator on January 20, 2006 - 11:06pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I've been reading TOD almost daily for the last four or five months.  You are a source so unlike the mass media.  Thanks for your efforts and thanks to all for some very thought provoking discussions. It's amazing what people sharing can learn together.

Any bets on if this news will even be picked up by the "mainstream" media?"

Looking at the OPEC graph, it's also "interesting" how Iran's reserves have been so heavily inflated twice since '85. It's like magic!! Is Harry Potter Persian?  It certainly makes me wonder how effectively the "oil weapon" can be wielded and for how long.

Stuart (and the rest of TOD crew) thanks for your passion for this topic. Our overall political leadership is not interested and would just as soon keep JQ Public in the dark.

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Prof. Goose on January 20, 2006 - 11:38pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
tell your friends!  :)  

no seriously, we do this because we have a great community here.  This community makes this worthwhile...so thank you.

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Will on January 21, 2006 - 2:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
My guess is this will not be covered by the media. It requires more than a soundbite to provide proper perspective and, more to the point, the facts, if true, are particularly troubling.

I can't name a big, respected, newspaper that has entertained the possibility of genuine oil scarcity. Has Simmons been interviewed by the NYT or WashPost? Have Deffeye's or Kunstler's books been reviewed?  

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copperweaver on January 21, 2006 - 4:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There was an article back in Augest in the NYT sunday magazine by Peter Maass  called "The Breaking Point".  It was one of the better articles I have read in the mainstream media dealing with PO. Maass reffrences Matt Simmons book in the article.   Reading this article is the main reason I started paying attention to TOD.

The NYT is charging for the complet article, but I found a copy on the web here.  

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Oil CEO on January 22, 2006 - 12:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
See former Secretary Schlesinger's piece in this Winter's National Interest.

Simmons is mentioned more times than Daniel Yergin is just about every news source there is these days mentioning oil.

Peter Maass has been mentioned. He actually wrote abother one about a month ago in the NYT Mag.

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