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Catskill on May 15, 2006 - 1:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I was thinking the same thing - someone mentioned this on TOD the other day too - that we should all watch for the hype when oil prices "plummet" or "tumble" or "free fall"  or god knows what other feel good word they can come up with - down to around $70.

I swear I can't read anything from the MSM anymore about this (and many other) subject without thinking it's complete propoganda - in an effort to keep giving the stock market verbal CPR.  So annoying...

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step back on May 15, 2006 - 5:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Catskill,
Once you become POA (Peak Oil Aware) you undergo a major paradigm shift.
Almost nothing is the same any more.

  1. The carefree "cult of comfort" stories that MSM pumps out to the lay public about their PP (Pain at the Pump) now appear as raw propaganda rather than as incisive reporting (we reporterize, you moterize and then decide ... as if, ha, you actually have a functional brain once we get through with you).

  2. Those muscular Hemmi engine Hummers now look like like starving dinasours instead of the engineering marvels they once were.

  3. Wal-Mart is the country too far instead of the local mega-depot for all things consumable.

I liked the old American "Dream" better. Becoming POA killed it for me. Sad. I wish I didn't know. But how do you unring the bell?
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Prof. Goose on May 15, 2006 - 8:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
or as Savinar would say, how do you unbitchslap someone?
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