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40 comments on The Chicago Tribune Story on Oil

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lorlee on August 1, 2006 - 3:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The article must also obviously have scared the pants off people.  At the end, you can take a poll and the numbers were astonishing. If I remember correctly, the percentages were in the 80's of those who believe there is a problem and that we aren't doing enough about it.

 

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alan on August 1, 2006 - 4:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Only 500 votes though. Notice the percentage of people who said car dependent suburbs are not sustainable. How many of those came from peak oil sites?
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Mad Maxout on August 1, 2006 - 6:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Maybe there's a hidden, diffuse movement waiting to get organised. Time to check meetup.com to see if there's a surge in joiners. Of course, a story like that is going to attract peakniks (or as the article calls us, peakists). Someone googles it and mentions it, like our site.

Maybe this article is the PO-awareness equivalent to the Col. Drake oil well. It has to start somewhere.

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Prof. Goose on August 1, 2006 - 6:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I am always surprised at how few actual internal hits the news sites get.  They get a lot of folks coming to their page, skimming the headlines, and leaving...not actually reading the stories.

hit numbers for CNN, etc., are pretty skewed like that.  Rarely do their visitors have the same inquisitive nature that the TOD reader does.

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