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Oh my God ... now I can document it and give you the theory & data ...
I could just copy Dave's comment to describe my own thoughts when I found LAOTC, a wonderful resource for all. LAOTC was my first introduction to peak oil as well. I told my fiancee all about what I discovered and how I thought peak oil would affect our lives. Two months later she dumped me, coincidence? (Matt, you destroyed my life but I still read your site daily, no hard feelings. I'll see you in the FEMA camp buddy.) Now that I'm single again I have much more time to spend reading LAOTC and TOD which is awesome!
But a tip of the hat to more people than just Matt. To all of you who provide such wonderful information to TOD I thank you. I hesitate to post sometimes feeling that I am not worthy. I wish I had more to contribute to the community here. Thank you all for letting me learn from your research and knowledge.
I wish we were all wrong. I wish my friends and family would stop giving me tin foil hats as gag gifts. I don't think any of us will be laughing about this in the end. TOD is only the beginning of the discussion that not end in my lifetime.
Good luck everyone,
Rex
I appreciate the kind words. Now let's address the "meaty" part of your post . . .
I've gotten an email almost identical to your post about every two weeks for the last two years: a guy emails me to say their girlfriend or fiance dumped them because they read my site and got freaked. Then they follow it by saying, "but I'm not mad at you. . .." Yeah right. From the "profit of doom" joke to the FEMA camp to the bit about how being single is great cause you have more time o read LATOC and TOD!, the passive aggresiveness is just pouring out from your post.
I will tell you what I tell every other hard up guy who emails me about their romantic problems: I STRONGLY suspect she dumped you for reasons that had more to do with YOU than with your awareness of Peak Oil visavi LATOC. But it's much easier for you to point to my site as the original source of your problems.
=)
You're right, of course there were other reasons but my doomerism was certainly one of them. I didn't intend for you to misuse your time replying to my post. I just hoped some TODers could get a chuckle out of it.
Rex
It was the first time I heard about peak oil, but the concept seemed very reasonable to me. I couldn't believe I hadn't thought about it on my own, in other words it was an eye opening experience. From that day I read all I could find, not much later I was reading TOD daily and have been more or less ever since. Grats to you all with the milestones.