Actually it makes sense, although I've read a lot about this stuff and am fascinated by it. It would be over my head if I was new to this stuff.

My feeling is that the best ROI will be with your family, which is the closest to your genetics. Of course that feeling, as you point out, is probably little more than the product of genetic alogrithms doing what they do. It has a lot to do with my personal situation and the options available to me. If different data (say on the immediate enviornment) were fed into my genetic alogrithims, then the resulting feelings would be different.

I.E., if you put Peak Guy in my shoes or vice versa, the feelings about the ROI of peak oil activism would go through a behaviorial switch.

Best,

Matt