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Gail the Actuary on July 2, 2007 - 2:46pm

Thanks for your vote of confidence.

I agree that more easy to read material needs to be published about our oil situation, and a book of collected TOD readings would be very nice.

I know that Euan Mearns is working on a post with a collection of links to few of the better recent articles. This gets part of the way - it is not a published book and some of the posts require quite a high level of background.

For now, I am keeping copies of most of my posts on my blog.
http://gailtheactuary.wordpress.com/
I don't have a copy of Hyman Rickover's speech on my blog, and it is also a good article for new people, so perhaps I should add it as well. The blog also includes links to magazine articles I have written.

I have a "regular" website as well. http://www.ourfiniteworld.com/

It is harder to keep up to date. There, I talk more about Educational Material.

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oilmanbob on July 2, 2007 - 3:27pm

Gail,
I agree with Don the Sailorman, you'd make a perfect editor for a book of peak oil related articles. Since your background isn't in the industry you'd appear to be more of a neutral voice than most of us, plus your writing has a real quality of being simple without being simplistic.
I'm serious about what I said above, we need to make peace with our critics and instead focus on solutions, getting reasonably priced, environmentaly safe energy for the world, and weaning off the US from disasterous imports that threaten our economy and world stability.
Bob Ebersole

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Theycallmeun-American on July 2, 2007 - 5:17pm

I agree with your statements on focising on education and solutions but wonder how we can effectively dialouge with the critics when their underlying assumptions are fundamently different. The PO aware see a looming/current problem in contrast to the voices of commerce and industry which see just another opportunity for progress in the form of new technology or developement of new energy sources. How can one effectivley educate these groups when they are just as skeptical of PO as we are of the current system continuing without a hitch, even inspite of the mouting evidance that continues to bolster the case of peak oil. It seems to me that the faith in 'progress' exibited by the majority of our society is what realy inhibits a meaningful dialouge. In such a circumstance who can ever truely appear as neutral voice?