jbunt

What is the source of this "cried wolf" crap. I have been following oil for 40 years, and other than Jimmy Carter or maybe some unknown environmentalist - who has actually written a well documented book in the last 40 years that has previously said that PO is (was) here. Even now, the consensus (among PO experts) is that it is near, but perhaps not quite. Although recent statistics have peaked, we are not sure what, if any, production restraints are in place due solely to a lack of transparency from KSA, among others.

So I take it that you believe in the "civilized discourse" approach that lead us down the path of cozy inside-the-beltway punditry. Ever see the British parliament in action?

I believe both these guys are British. They can handle themselves quite all right.

I respect your opinion but I don't agree at all. I didn't call him names but I did make fun of his arguments, because he didn't make any whatsoever. He just called the other guy a doomer:

"your case is locked into the peak oil litany."

... as if that was some kind of an argument. The notion that he denies Peak Oil is laughable, because even the industry acknowledges PO.

And then he goes to claim that PO view...

...is one that greatly discounts world oil resource and reserve potential, future exploration efforts and discoveries, inherent oil market dynamics, crude price impacts and inter-fuel transitions, the future application of multiple technologies, the on-going and substantial phenomenon of reserve growth in the world’s oilfields, societal adaptation, and much more besides

... which is blatantly false. Either he is beating a straw man, or being ignorant or being a liar. I think he's the third. Then he makes another ignorant rant:

This new 21st century paradigm may be expected to continue. But it does not mean that the world has run out of reserves or the supply of oil, let alone all liquids. Nor, despite peak oil’s assumptions, is all now known once and for all on world oil reserves.

... which is completely unrelated to PO. First, no one is saying that oil "is running out", second, no one is saying that all is known once and for all. This is completely a wrong criticism of PO.

The world oil game is arguably one of the hardest things to understand and measure, let alone predict with precision.

Yet, he's the one who claims that oil will be alright, just because he awoke with good feelings, as he gives no data whatsoever. Have faith will ya?

Right.

And why should I "respect" such fraudulent speech, so full of rethorics and shallow of content, that serves no purpose than to derail debate and to further delay the political PO lobbyism that he so envies about (why sure, the oil majors lobby is certainly smaller...) and to delay the public consensus that something is got to be done about it. He's no more than a shill, and I am happy and all the way to joke him whatever I want.