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reno on June 1, 2006 - 9:21am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Is peak oil now a fashion statement?? Here we have Robert Redford going on record stating We  need to Kick the oil habit

I believe America is ready to kick the oil habit and launch a new movement for real solutions and a better future.

Something is happening all across the country. People are coming together and demanding new answers. A grassroots movement is gathering today to promote solutions, like renewable fuels, clean electricity, more efficient cars, and green buildings that use less energy -- all of which are exciting alternatives that rebuild our communities even as they cut pollution and create good jobs. And, when people come together to invest themselves in building a better future, we are not only helping to solve our energy crisis, but we are taking back our democracy itself.

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Jack on June 1, 2006 - 10:16am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
How many cars does he own?
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wstephens on June 1, 2006 - 10:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What color ribbon do I need to wear for "peak oil" awareness? Black? Green? E-85 Yellow? No wait, yellow was for AIDS. Or was it the troops?
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Jack on June 1, 2006 - 10:31am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
When oil runs out we won't be able to make ribbons anymore.
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wstephens on June 1, 2006 - 10:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Maybe I should hurry up and make a "peak oil" awareness ribbon sticker for the back of SUVs!
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odograph on June 1, 2006 - 11:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
How about a black drip, with (white text) "PO" in the middle?
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JN2 on June 1, 2006 - 12:28pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
PO = piss off? as in Friday is Poet's day? (piss off early, tomorrow is Saturday). British humour. Sorry, humor :)
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reno on June 1, 2006 - 11:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I believe that would be a yellow and green ribbon for E85(from the logo of "Live Green Go Yellow)..
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Oil CEO on June 2, 2006 - 1:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Shell out Green, Turn Yellow.
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dbarberic on June 1, 2006 - 4:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Order your Peak Oil ribbons here:
http://www.supportourribbons.com/m/14307
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Mad Maxout on June 1, 2006 - 6:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That ribbon looks great. Do I have permission to develop a bumper sticker to advertise theoildrum.com ? I suppose a bumper sticker like "Why are gas prices so high? Visit theoildrum.com !" would get the interest of yuppies.
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step back on June 1, 2006 - 7:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Maybe they can add an arrowhead to the back loop with the arrow pointing down to the ground to let people know where we are heading if we don't do something about PO?

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step back on June 1, 2006 - 7:49pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Cool, you can custom design your own:

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Oil CEO on June 2, 2006 - 1:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
How apropriate. All this talk of ribbons. About a week ago I saw a yellow Support-the-Troops ribbon/magnet. I had a good chuckle since it was the first one I could remember seeing in the last year. It was on the back of a ten-year-old sub-compact Toyota driven by an ethnic-minority as best I can guess, with all four seats filled, no doubt with a son, or daughter, or two somewhere just east of Falluja.

While we fret about Haditha, rich, white, drive-yourself- to-the-mall-in-an-Expedition- isn't George Bush awful, politically purple Americans could give a shit. I thought it was funny that as half of us want to get rid of all the aliens, it seems the immigrants may be the only ones that care any more.

What happened to all those yellow ribbons? Not cool anymore?

I like the black peak-oil one, Step Back. I think you may have a winner there. The only thing you want to achieve is to get one person to ask - what the hell does that mean? And you've succeeded.

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odograph on June 1, 2006 - 11:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hey, a parked car is better than a moving one ;-), maybe he should corner the market.
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PeakBeliever on June 1, 2006 - 2:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The comments appended to the article are just as interesting. The commentators are enthusiastic about "getting off oil," but you can tell they have no concept of what that really means. An example:

American innovation always solves problems. Henry Ford ran his original Model T on corn oil so we can recapture our independence from petroleum products through cellulosic ethanol and conservation measures. No question American grassroots ingenuity can retool our actions relative to our energy needs.

Definitely not a techno-curmudgeon!

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