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jellyologist on April 4, 2007 - 12:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

This article is a mishmash of assumptions... coulds and shoulds. Where's the kitchen sink? I'm a geologist who must live on another planet as I've never been privy to many of the statistics and facts that 'geologists say'.

One comment: (would write more but difficult to concentrate with a seal staring at me. We used to eat seal flipper pie where I grew up in Newfondland and that photo makes me hungry). The USA is not the world and the USA will be 'a' player in future in the energy debate and related issues such as global warming. Articles that start of with the USA... the USA... the USA... and then extrapololate some world conclusions are myopic. It's almost irrelevent how the USA approaches coal use (which, despite the article will expand significantly.) What's relevent is how China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan,etc. use coal.

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AlanfromBigEasy on April 4, 2007 - 1:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

My Icelandic friends have a dislike for anything that eats Icelandic fish (except humans that pay Icelanders for Icelandic fish :-)

I have eaten Minke whale (not endangered, but competes by eating fish). The fewer seals, the more fish for us !

Icelanders do wear fur without shame.

And seal flipper pie sounds good !

Alan

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GreyZone on April 4, 2007 - 2:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ah! It's jellyologist! You are the fellow that insists there is PLENTY of oil, aren't you? And you are the fellow who Stuart reminded that world discoveries peaked in the early 1960s. You geologists must surely be off your game if world discoveries have gone down, down, down for 40+ years! Why, I'd say that must be sheer incompetence, especially since there must be SO MUCH OIL out there!

You should haul your butt back to work, jellyologist. You and your wife have a lot of oil to find in the next few years. Or maybe you are not a competent geologist at all, eh? Well, whatever you are, you are NOT finding much oil lately, are you? And neither are your geologist friends.

*end sarcasm, for the sarcasm impaired*

Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett

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Seadragon on April 4, 2007 - 11:28pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I'm getting the feeling that since this fellow (and/or his "geologist" wife) seem to want to spout opinions without either facts or data to back them up, and have used the "appeal to authority" dodge in their posts, what we have here is just another troll. Again, TODers, kindly just ignore them and they will go away.

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