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JD on August 12, 2006 - 7:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Any research into Yergin's recent background will show he's now heavily affiliated with Carlyle, Goldman Sachs, Council on Foreign Relations, etc.

Matt Simmons is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Care to comment on what that means, Don?

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PhilRelig on August 13, 2006 - 11:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I have never completely trusted Simmons for this very reason.  In a closely related vein, his association with Cheney's infamous energy task force of Spring 2001 has also always aroused my suspicion.  If Simmons cares so much about humanity, then why does he not make a clean break with the wealthy ruling elite of which he is an organic part, and publicly speak out about anything he knows relating to the nefarious plots to gain control over oil that were undoubtedly hatched there, and that are also being continually plotted (albeit usually in less dramatic and concentrated fashion) by the CFR?

Mr. Simmons, if you read TOD, then consider this to be a public request to break completely with your own class interest by someone who is very much an admirer of yours apart from what I have just said.  (Because in fact I truly believe that you DO care deeply about humanity.)

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mikeB on August 14, 2006 - 6:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"his association with Cheney's infamous energy task force of Spring 2001 has also always aroused my suspicion."

He has repeatedly denied this associated. He has "advised" the Bush campaign on energy, but he was not part of the secret task force.

Not that I'm that much of a Simmons fan, however. He keeps saying Iraq was about WMD. I admire his energy analysis, but I would not enjoy being in the same room as he.

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PhilRelig on August 14, 2006 - 12:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
How much are these denials worth, though?  That is obviously a function of how rock-solid one's overall trust in the man is.

Overall, Simmons' connections to the power elite and their foreign policy machinations remain decidedly murky - at least to myself, and probably to most other people who hail him for his almost unheard-of forthrightness on energy issues for someone of his social background.

I think that Peak Oil advocates have been too quick to give Simmons a "free pass" with regard to his murky connections to foreign policy machinations on this account, though.  For Simmons truly to live up to the hero-status that he has unquestioningly been accorded within the Peak-Oil crowd, he needs to divest himself of these morally compromising murky connections completely.

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peakearl on August 14, 2006 - 1:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I only care if he's right or wrong with respect to the issue of peak.
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